Okay. It’s not technically all tech in consideration… I’m writing about the specific domain of software and related hardware.
How many times have we encountered folks throw up their arms and exclaim, “Oh I’m just hopeless with this tech.”
And what’s the “tech” in question?
Most times… something as asinine as getting a word-processor to not nudge a chart into la-la land on some other page.
Yet, it’s amazing how much effort people put in to learning hip and cool hard-to-use tech even if simpler and effective alternatives exist. Plus of course the smug superiority of those-who-know is a major barrier for widespread use of best-practices.
Or perhaps, folks just like the pain of it all. (Yay for the appeal of sweeping generalizations.)
