Mithat Konar
Parts 1 and 2 of this series read as a defense of expertise, which doesn’t seem very punk rock. In the following I argue the opposite is likely the case. The problem with viewing a defense of expertise as anti-punk stems from a misunderstanding of the significance of punk rock. There’s no...
Mithat Konar
In this installment of Not Knowing What You Don’t Know, I’m going to elaborate on something I mentioned in Part 1, namely, how easy it has become to delude ourselves today. We live in a pretty incredible time. It has become trivially easy to access information on just about anything you can think...
Mithat Konar
As both a college instructor and an engineering and design professional, I’m seeing more and deeper cases of people not knowing what they don’t know in fields they try to operate in. The most notable aspect of someone suffering from not knowing what they don’t know is that they assume they know...