I wish I knew as much about my field as someone who watched a 15 minute Youtube video on the subject.

[darrenverhage@mastodon.social]

@mattblaze To be fair, some of those videos are well written. By well written, I mean they omit the confusing parts for user retention. Since they haven't applied the material, then don't know any better...

[spoonful@theforkiverse.com]

@mattblaze
My guess is that talking fast and loud and saying “like and subscribe” somehow imbues knowledge.
So now I just keep saying “like and subscribe” over and over and over, and now I know everything.

[stargazersmith@social.linux.pizza]

@mattblaze
Happened to you too, eh.

In my day I assumed that the self-proclaimed experts telling me how to do my job got their knowledge from a Reader's Digest.

[iju@mastodon.social]

@darrenverhage @mattblaze

TBF, introductions to a new subject don't necessarily have to handle expectations to a rule: for the needs of students/viewers just an overview is enough.

Ofc this sometimes backfires: some have "complicated" relationship with education. So you get these people who argue for Newtonic physics* at internet because that's what was taught them, not realizing that 15-year olds are expected to get a driver's licence, not a FTL-ship.

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* Also: biology, recent history etc.

[seline93@mastodon.social]

@mattblaze
https://www.gofundme.com/f/emergency-help-for-olas-family-amid-gaza-evacuation?utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&utm_content=amp13_t1&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link&lang=en_US&attribution_id=sl%3Ad4c2678d-6d2a-4176-ae64-41cdcfaae3bf&ts=1756408412

[utf_7@mastodon.social]

@mattblaze watch 20min youtube video, idiot

[beisbolcards@mastodon.world]

@stargazersmith @mattblaze

My mom ordered a lot of books from Reader's Digest. I had fun playing with the stamps, and still have most of those books - magazines are long gone, though, and haven't bought one in around 20 years.

[alexisbushnell@toot.wales]

@mattblaze I see you and raise you I'm a social media manager and people don't even watch a YouTube video, they think that simply because they use social media in a personal capacity they can do my job!

[dezz@infosec.exchange]

@mattblaze Next, it will be AI bros who spent a couple of tokens 'learning' about your field

[securedllama@infosec.exchange]

@mattblaze I've got to the stage, professionally, where I actually enjoy being told how to do things by the people who are new to the field. Either they will stick it out and cringe ten years down the line when they realise or they'll leave and the industry will remember them as that person that thought they knew everything.

I got a wonderful email only a week or two ago from someone only a few years into the shallow. It started by asking me why their system worked as it did. For the main course the sender very clearly, and incorrectly, laid out some basic engineering. The dessert was the confidently asserted "everyone does this" with regards to something unique to them across the industry subsector. At this point I was feeling quite the silly sausage and thoroughly grateful for their insight.