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Joke on an early page of the system design “ebook”: The "it depends" joke is used in various contexts. Another is: A technical specialist knows more and more about less and less, until they know everything about nothing. An architect knows less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything.

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Joke on an early page of the system design “ebook”: The "it depends" joke is used in various contexts. Another is: A technical specialist knows more and more about less and less, until they know everything about nothing. An architect knows less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything.
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Ruth Malan (ruthmalan@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 09:55:46 JST Ruth Malan
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Now I need to add “expert’s dilemma” and “night science” to this page (smiles! But seriously… working at intersections is hard due to the work, and also because to be effective it needs to be collaborative, and we’re… not great at valuing that… expertise)
(From https://www.ruthmalan.com/Bredemeyer/20241021SystemDesignIntro.pdf)

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