The problem with being excellent at many things is that life is short.
We can overcome that by cooperation of people with different talents.
The problem with cooperation of people with different talents is that they may have a difficulty to understand each other. They may also be not aligned—mindset “I don’t understand X at all, but if my colleague tells me that it is important, I will do the things he deems necessary, even if I do not clearly see the benefit, and it complicates my part of the job” is not guaranteed. Or perhaps we might say that the ability to cooperate also takes some points?
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For example, to figure out how to best teach mathematics, you need someone who is great at teaching and great at mathematics. One of these things alone will not suffice. The math professor will probably recommend something difficult that most kids will fail at. The educational expert will probably invent some kind of new math that removes large parts of what everyone else understands as math. You need to find the rare person who excels at both.
Is then the problem solved? Actually, probably not, unless the person is also an expert at writing textbooks.
Okay, but is then the problem solved? Haha, not really, unless you are also good at marketing or politics. Good solutions matter only when people know about them. Otherwise you will sell 200 copies of the textbook and then go out of business.
(And the problem with alignment is that even if you find someone who is the world’s best expert at selling textbooks… why would they promote specifically your textbook? I mean, if they only do it for money, they can probably make just as much or more money by selling someone else’s textbook; or even better, selling horoscopes.)
The problem with being excellent at many things is that life is short.
We can overcome that by cooperation of people with different talents.
The problem with cooperation of people with different talents is that they may have a difficulty to understand each other. They may also be not aligned—mindset “I don’t understand X at all, but if my colleague tells me that it is important, I will do the things he deems necessary, even if I do not clearly see the benefit, and it complicates my part of the job” is not guaranteed. Or perhaps we might say that the ability to cooperate also takes some points?
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For example, to figure out how to best teach mathematics, you need someone who is great at teaching and great at mathematics. One of these things alone will not suffice. The math professor will probably recommend something difficult that most kids will fail at. The educational expert will probably invent some kind of new math that removes large parts of what everyone else understands as math. You need to find the rare person who excels at both.
Is then the problem solved? Actually, probably not, unless the person is also an expert at writing textbooks.
Okay, but is then the problem solved? Haha, not really, unless you are also good at marketing or politics. Good solutions matter only when people know about them. Otherwise you will sell 200 copies of the textbook and then go out of business.
(And the problem with alignment is that even if you find someone who is the world’s best expert at selling textbooks… why would they promote specifically your textbook? I mean, if they only do it for money, they can probably make just as much or more money by selling someone else’s textbook; or even better, selling horoscopes.)