<story><title>The Ambiguity of Real Work</title><url>https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2021/12/28/the-ambiguity-of-real-work/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>splittingTimes</author><text>In Germany you have basically two education&amp;#x2F;preparation for work life tracks after secondary school ends. One is the very intellectual heavy university education.&lt;p&gt;The other is a dual education system of apprenticeship for Craftsman&amp;#x2F;manual work. For three years You go to school two to three days a week and work at a real craft business. That way you get the theory and it&amp;#x27;s practical application. After your exam you are a certified handy man in your profession with the relevant skills to work professionally. This solves the mentioned ambiguity of real work.&lt;p&gt;University education was associated with staying in higher education or R&amp;amp;D. But the creation of vast PhD programs had created a wave of PhD that cannot be absorbed by the University and research institutions. So it bleeds into &amp;quot;normal&amp;quot; work life.&lt;p&gt;The software profession would benefit from a dual apprenticeship system. But company&amp;#x27;s are not willing to take on the responsibility and train their talent that way. At least not in Germany.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Ambiguity of Real Work</title><url>https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2021/12/28/the-ambiguity-of-real-work/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>onos</author><text>I found the discussion around ambiguity and required group consolidation around a shared understanding pretty interesting.  One could imagine that the amount of ambiguity present in a problem could then set the scale of how many people should be working on something:  with large ambiguity it becomes hard for a big group to consolidate on a shared understanding, and they might never then align their efforts.&lt;p&gt;Presumably a leader of a large group should set very few and clear goals to align the group around.  The tension then I would guess is that this might not best make use of the specific skills of the individuals present.</text></comment>