71 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 23 Jun freebie \ on: David Dunning of the Dunning-Kruger effect: We are all confident idiots BooksAndArticles
This is why we should always assume we are wrong, or at least doubt we are right, even where we think we have expertise. It's not as debilitating as it sounds. An outcome does not need to be certain to put effort into achieving an outcome. I'd argue you're more likely to achieve some positive outcome when you're skeptical of how your desired outcome is achieved. It's helped me to not focus on being right, to not focus on knowing anything for certain, and instead be satisfied with simply thinking about and acting on what I think is right at the time - regardless of whether I'm eventually proven right or wrong.
It makes arguing especially frustrating for me, because what I mostly want from my counterparty is to make logical progress with me instead of telling me I'm wrong and they're right in a bunch of creative ways that have nothing to with facts or logic.
If most programmers weren't so arrogant, I'd assume they'd be trained to do this generically, because it's fundamental to making something that works well. But often, outside of being able to definitively test that something works, I've noticed we fail to question our own thinking as much as anyone else.
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I don’t know
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