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Which is the only way to learn tbh, you can receive as much positive reinforcement imaginable, nothing prepares you for a large scale incident like living through one, building the connections you need to solve it, getting the shame of your life, and losing sleep over your failure.


I'm not really sure what you mean by "positive reinforcement", but I don't think it's possible to disagree more with this sentiment. "building the connections you need to solve it, getting the shame of your life, and losing sleep over your failure" isn't a strategy for teaching for something; it's a coping mechanism for someone trying to brute force their way through something that they weren't adequately trained for.

Most people seem to think it's fine for companies to offload the entirety of the burden of learning to individual employees, and maybe I'm an outlier in this regard, but to me, this seems more like a cop out to avoid trying to actually solve the problem at the cost of the employee's emotional health. I'm not surprised that companies default to this, but it's also not surprising that burnout is so common in our industry when this is considered the "best" or "only" way to do things.


Nothing teaches you to swim like being thrown in the middle of the atlantic.




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