The Fun Guy's Journal: 194.8 Wisdom

Just got off the phone with someone who wanted to talk over the possibility of a grant application. As we talked, I relayed facts when I knew them, expressed opinions and what they were based on, and made speculations (clearly identified as such). We each brought unique info and perspectives to the conversation.

At the end, although we'd pooled our knowledge, it didn't seem to me like we were any farther along toward any kind of a resolution or positive outcome. Still, he'd said mid-conversation and again at the end that he really appreciated the opportunity to tap into my "wisdom".

Wisdom? Hell, I don't know any more about it than you do. I just made sure to read the fine print in the documentation and draw a few pretty obvious inferences.

I don't know. Maybe that's what passes for wisdom these days, simple attention to detail and the willingness to look past the smoke and mirrors. People see a couple of million dollars hanging out there, ripe for the plucking, they get all excited. They don't think to look for the worm in the apple, or the thorns on the rose, or for any other metaphors for "this is more complicated than it seems".

Ah, I just found the website that covers this situation. I knew I'd bookmarked it: "No One Knows What the F*** They're Doing (or: The 3 Types of Knowledge)". Read it. Very insightful.

Interesting...

[Shadow Wrought]

I have to find that most of what I need to know for what I'm doing, I know inside and out. I feel more like I am stagnating, however, because there is a wealth of skills of which I am aware, but do not have. Speaking strictly professionally, there are a couple certifications which I am going to try and pursue over the next few months.

What I have come to find is that the attorneys, for the most part, really don't know what what we do. So it is always interesting that some of the more complicated, diffi

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[The Fun Guy]

Some of the most complicated and arcane stuff one does is just too far outside the sphere of comprehension of people who are specialists in other areas.

They can have a relative sense of how hard it is to do the work that they kinda, sorta understand. But when you refremulate the side-p-band load marginalizers, they're left with no idea if that's an easy thing or a hard thing. If they're too embarrassed to admit ignorance, then they wander off with no real idea of how this stuff works.

What's funny is that,

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[Captain Splendid]

Good stuff. I long ago made my peace with knowing that I don't know shit, and life is too short to make more than a dent in it, so relax!