21 Jan
2007
21 Jan
'07
5:17 p.m.
Gooijen, Henk wrote:
On 1/20/07, Dan Veeneman <dan at ekoan.com> wrote:
Yes, Tony's replies to some of my questions here have been extremely
valuable (his explanation of Unibus NPG comes to mind), but I think his
contribution here goes deeper than that.
More than specific diagnostic information, very often what Tony
offers is a diagnostic *mindset*. Information is reasonably easy to
acquire. The capacity to get from here to the desired state with that
information is a lot harder. Rarest of all is the ability to impart
that diagnostic mindset - to show the "student" how to think through any
problem instead of how to fix this particular problem.
I train people in system administration, and teaching that mindset is
part of my job. Tony's example has greatly improved my success in that.
Doc
> Tony Duell wrote wrote:
> Is this view wildly held? If so, I'll stop posting. No point in wasting
> my time looking stuff up to post, and everybody else's time in reading
> useless information.
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And I would like to add that Tony's postings are, besides educational,
also helpful when you are stuck in a problem. Simply by posting some
information it gave me the momentum to carry on to get my RK611 fixed
for example. It would be a loss if Tony turned away! But that's my
personal opinion. There is lots of stuff posted here that I do not read,
but if there is one kind of posting that I *always* read, they must be
the technical stuff. It sure did not make me dumber! Other people on this
list can express that better, as English is not my native language.