fighting the lack of good ideas
LEX>>FWD is meeting tonight at West Sixth Brewery in Lexington at 5:30p.
The topic is scheduled to be “source control and specifically differences between distributed and centralized”.
If you’re int he Lexington area this evening, come join us.
I recently found The Seven Stages of Expertise in Software Engineering.
- Stage 1: Innocent
- barely knowledgeable if at all
- Stage 2: Exposed
- seeking knowledge
- Stage 3: Apprentice
- has read case studies and tries to apply those techniques
- Stage 4: Practitioner
- can actually apply concepts learned in one context to a not-identical context
- Stage 5: Journeyman
- professional understanding and application of the field; can mentor
- Stage 6: Master
- moved from “whats” and “hows” to “whys”; can mentor very effectively
- Stage 7: Researcher
- the teacher, presenter, mentor, speaker, evangelist, writer, authority
Presented firstly in the humorous guise of The Seven Stages of Expertise in Bear Hunting, Meilir Page-Jones makes a highly-compelling case for progressive advancement in [nearly] any field.
Some of the ideas seem similar to what Malcolm Gladwell brings in Outliers (review) or Robert Greene does in Mastery (review). Which seems to only lend more credence to those other works, given that this article is © 1998.
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