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The ivory tower can’t understand the clutter on the periphery! – Teacher Supporting the Wall: Thinking and Precipitation of an Architect
Fu Qiang said the thinking and precipitation of an architectThe ivory tower can’t understand the clutter on the periphery!
Wang Fuqiang
2022-07-14
I saw a translated article today, saying that the protagonist “accidentally” recruited a group of programmers who only read code snippets from Google. There are two points in this that I find very interesting and typical.
The first point is that it is a good thing to be able to use a good search engine to complete work tasks. The programmers mentioned in the article are only “going employees” without any technical literacy and foundation. As long as they can join the job, No matter what happens later. So, over time, the authors found that this group of people did not “grow”. Another group of programmers who can make good use of the search engine is actually the group of people with technical “skeleton” and basic literacy, and the search engine is their extension. Therefore, the search engine is correct, and it is also correct to use the search engine well, but the crowd is definitely different.
The second point is, from the words in the text, it can be seen that the author belongs to the kind of person who has always been more motivated. He may have a smooth journey and focus on his work to get to where he is today. Therefore, before these things happened, he did not realize that there was still so much A large group of people are actually different from him. I call this phenomenon “the ivory tower can’t understand the clutter on the periphery!”, that is, if it is a person who has always been excellent, the TA will intuitively think that everyone “should” be like this 1 , but it’s not. It’s like “a kind person can never understand how bad a bad person can be”, only when TA encounters it, will he be “sleepy and know it”.
Many times, the big factories in reality are actually ivory towers. People in the big factories (especially those at high levels) have a hard time understanding the clutter in the periphery. On this route, either someone escorted TA unintentionally, or he has always been a star in the team and “don’t ask about the world”, so it is difficult to understand what the outer ecology is like, only when TA asks himself for a certain event When facing the external personnel, it will wake up.
I remember a brother sharing with me his experience after he came out of Ali to start a business. At that time, it was difficult for him to understand that someone would ask him for a kickback as soon as he came up, but when he stopped starting a business and returned to Ali again, To understand, in fact, Ali is an ivory tower, and the people and things on the vast land outside are the majority of the daily life .
Many times, the reason why big factories grow into big factories is because they have designed the entire market structure from the beginning. Even if there are occasional chaos of one kind or another, the basic data will not change, and the basic system will not change. questionable. Because there will always be factors such as human feelings and human diversity during the period, there will always be gaps and fish that slip through the net, but as long as the basics remain unchanged, it will be “harmless”.
In the article, the author finally found the key to the problem, which is to go back to the source and recheck the recruitment process . Do you agree?
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Remember the “should” curse? ↩︎
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