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>Engineering in the real world is maybe 30% calculations and typical "sciency" work, the other 70% is documentation and communicating to people.

>Being smart isn't enough sometimes

Congratulations. You've learned two things that some people go their entire lives without understanding.

And I make no hyperbole. Erik Naggum didn't learn this, and he's far from the only one.

It's really something that we should put a greater effort into teaching...




cyanoacry just learned another viewpoint. If you work in a heavily political environment, a process heavy environment, or one in which the "calculations" are not appreciated, then yes, your viewpoint would be to put down the keyboard/slide rule and just communicate. In other environments, actual working results can silence people that are trying to "communicate" their way to success.


True. But in some contexts, communication does matter. A lot.

Some would say that it never matters at all.




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