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Observationally, I would say that there's little correlation between expertise and kit-optimization in our field, positive or negative. The lesson here is to be careful with the signals you use as proxies for competence. "Has the perfect Visual Studio config", "has spoken at loads of conferences", and "visible on Hacker News"[4](https://brooker.co.za/blog/2023/04/20/hobbies.html#foot4) seem like strong signals, when the reality seems to be that they are weak ones, at best.

The Four Hobbies, and Apparent Expertise

marcbrooker@gmail.com (Marc Brooker)

When we examine our bloodstreams under a microscope, we see there's one hell of a fight going on. All sorts of micro-organisms are chewing each other up. And if we got overly fascinated with our view of our own bloodstreams in the microscope, we should start taking sides. Which would be fatal! Because the health of our organism depends of the continuance of this battle. What is, in other words, conflict at one level of magnification is harmony at a higher level.

Everything | Gameplay Film

David OReilly

The truth is, nearly every attempt to design a hierarchy-free, "flat" control system just moves the central control around until you can't see it anymore. Human structures all have leaders, whether implicit or explicit, and the explicit ones tend to be more diverse.

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