2026-03-17 12:28 UTC
@davidgerard@circumstances.run @geeeero@mastodon.social @lokeloski@mastodon.social
The story may be made up but the effect is real. I started noticing it in journalism in the '90s... journalists often seemed authoritatively good at stuff I didn't know anything about, but as soon as they started writing about the Internet, or anything else that was at the time a bit esoteric but I know a lot about, their stuff was obvious twaddle.
See also Knoll's Law:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Knoll
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@mathew@universeodon.com 2026-03-17 13:50
@resuna@ohai.social @davidgerard@circumstances.run @geeeero@mastodon.social @lokeloski@mastodon.social Computer hackers also tend to have the related problem of assuming any other job is something easy that they could do if they deigned to do it. e.g. sales, marketing. (Refuting this is a simple matter of looking at how well free software products are marketed to their potential audience.)