the death of expertise
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the death of expertise
The curse of modernity is that we are increasingly populated by a class of people who are better at explaining than understanding, or better at explaining than doing.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
Fadeke Adegbuyi: The command and deep understanding of a subject has been decoupled from credentialism. Experts can be born and brought up on the internet, bypassing post-secondary institutions and other centralized forms of education and knowledge dissemination….Additionally, the rate at which the internet allows for information to be generated an... See more
future.a16z.com • 21 Experts on the Future of Expertise - Future
Let us remember that economists are evaluated on how intelligent they sound, not on a scientific measure of their knowledge of reality.