[extropy-chat] Fw: Deconstruction deconstructed....

[Alan Eliasen]

Harvey Newstrom wrote:

> Jef Allbright wrote,
> 
>>Stephen Karlsgodt wrote:
>>
>>><http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/people/PVR/decon.html >
> 
> I would fire any engineer that wrote this article.  He makes fun of things
> he doesn't understand and assumes that only his own field of endeavor is
> worthwhile while other people's knowledge is fake.  He sounds more like the
> pointy-haired boss in Dilbert rather than a real engineer.  

   If you find yourself in such a position, please forward me the resume
of said fired engineer.  I would be more than happy to hire such a
pragmatic engineer who was clearly able to express himself clearly, with
a clear flair for language, and had such a wide-based interest in fields
outside of engineering that he reads the exchanges, attends the
seminars, is confident to present public talks, and attempts to
contribute to mass understanding of a rather interesting phenomenon.
Firing such people would seem to me to be, to put it gently,
counterproductive.

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