You asked good questions in that article. It's unfortunate, and I can't help but wonder if we've lost something essential because of how uncommon it is for people to be proud of their abilities, proud of their work, proud of their accomplishments.
In a nutshell, I think people who truly enjoy the satisfaction of doing a thing well are spending more time, generally, trying to truly understand things than those who just want to do their job and be done with it.
But what does that curiosity get us? I can't help but think of this fortune(6), and wonder how many non-curious people would even get it:
A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power
off and on. Knight, seeing what the student was doing spoke sternly:
"You can not fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no
understanding of what is going wrong." Knight turned the machine off
and on. The machine worked.
> It's unfortunate, and I can't help but wonder if we've lost something essential because of how uncommon it is for people to be proud of their abilities, proud of their work, proud of their accomplishments.
Is it? this forum is full of it in the form of blog posts and replies. And it is one of the things that makes it great. By the other hand, social media is also full of people boasting about their accomplishments but more often than not is just marketing.
In a nutshell, I think people who truly enjoy the satisfaction of doing a thing well are spending more time, generally, trying to truly understand things than those who just want to do their job and be done with it.
But what does that curiosity get us? I can't help but think of this fortune(6), and wonder how many non-curious people would even get it: