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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: US Election Year!
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 17:19:23 +1100
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On 12/03/2024 7:44 am, john larkin wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 20:09:09 +0000, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 07:49:42 -0700, John Larkin <jl@997PotHill.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 10 Mar 2024 11:26:34 +0000, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Every four years, this group becomes a discussion forum exclusively
>>>> for US politics, where heated opinions and insults are freely
>>>> exchanged. And this year it should be an absolute hum-dinger! May I
>>>> suggest we all get plenty of popcorn in before it's all sold out?
>>>
>>> There's a simple explanation for why people who care about politics
>>> are bad electronic designers.
>>>
>>> Think about it.
>>
>> Okay. I've thought about it and I'm none the wiser. What's the reason?
> 
> They are tribal and social, so are hostile to new, unauthorized ideas.

That has to be a particularly silly argument. The last fifty years of 
circuit design has seen a flood of new devices. Anybody who fixated on 
solving all their problems with a 555 wouldn't look like a good circuit 
designer.

> Academic training can have the same effect, making people shy away
> from anything original.

John Larkin didn't get much academic training - or a least not much that 
was any good. Academics have a habit of latching onto the latest new 
idea and running with. If you want to produce new an exciting papers 
that other academics will read, you have to keep up with the leading 
edge, also know as the current state of the art.

Engineers have a habit of sticking to approaches that work until 
something shows up that works appreciably better.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney