The Wrong People Have Impostor Syndrome Part 2
The Real Life Consequences of the Competence Gap
This is gonna be a very different approach for me. In the previous post, I discussed the competence gap more in terms of my own personal experience and thought experiments and suggestions for how to avoid falling into the trap of letting confidence equate to competence. But today, we’re going to dive more into how this plays out in the real world using some very specific examples that are playing out in real time. I know that we’re focused on empathy and engineering, and in some of these examples we’re talking about technology, but in all of them we’re talking about specific public figures’ lack of empathy and lack of ability to see beyond their own perspective. Especially when that perspective is misguided, wrong, or just plain evil.
The three examples we’re going to cover today are:
Bari Weiss and The Free Press Take Over CBS News
The “AI Will Replace Programmers” Leaders
The “Low/No Code Development” Evangelists