Amateurs Obsess Over Tools, Pros Over Mastery
The tools that are available to each of us are so powerful, so varied and so complex that even the free ones are ignored or misunderstood. We’re too busy doing work to get much done.
And so we end up with the convenient and sexy tools (like the smartphone you might be reading this on) and fail to do the few hours or days of training we might need to... See more
And so we end up with the convenient and sexy tools (like the smartphone you might be reading this on) and fail to do the few hours or days of training we might need to... See more
PW 4: Productivity and tools
Without underlying theory, you get tools which might work in one situation, but you don’t know why. They might fail in other situations, but you don’t know why either. Ultimately the tool’s usefulness may depend on unreproducible aspects of a particular person’s skill.
Art Kleiner • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
"There’s really no replacement for spending time with these things, working towards a deeper mental model of the things they are good at and the things they are likely to mess up. Combining with domain knowledge of the thing you are working on is key too, especially as that can help protect you against them making things up!"
- Simon Willison, attem