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Thanks for the links!
Becoming a digital mercenary is great little series. It has already motivated me to revise and optimize parts of my work flow. It must take ages to condense everything into 10-20 minute videos. There’s just so much squeeze in.
I’m really looking forward to seeing what’s next!
Nice video, this series is looking good and realistic.
from all my previous jobs and careers i learned that favoring one method of learning or one source of knowledge will limit you and it will come back and bite you.
listing to others is as important as asking questions.
ps. as an IT person, having a book (or more than one) is usefull, if a user is really terrible you can always trough the book at them. 
One instance where you’ll never get an answer to your question is when you ask “how does this impact society?”. The most honest answer to this question is that no one cares.
I’ve been suggesting for years now that the “plug - n - play user experience” is holding the vast majority back. Of course part of this is due to locked down proprietary products as well. Few are considering the fact that the population would need skills in order to function in the information society that is forming as we type.
My intention isn’t to be derogatory though. Accelerated advancement is leaving almost all of us behind. Fundamental, social transformation like that of economic revolutions is something that used to happen over the course of several generations. Now I’ve seen a huge part of this one in my lifetime; which is about a half a lifetime. The Industrial Revolution took over 100 years to ramp up. The Technological Revolution is now broadsiding us; the populous is pretty much clueless; and people are talking seriously about a welfare state.
If anything is needed now, it’s innovation in business models, resources for upward mobility and promotion of self-sufficiency technologies. This isn’t going to happen though. What is going to happen is large companies that are concerning themselves with the next two years are going to keep training people with the same failing dogma until the public is a displaced dependent.
That being said, I disagree with almost all of the views in this series; and I don’t find them to be the least bit scientific.
I totally recognise what you are saying from the work. It’s nice series and I enjoy it quite. Thanks, and keep it up 
. I liked the snippets of wisdom in the first part a little better though, perhaps there was a clearer red thread in it?
Still, it is pure gold to ask yourself: “Are you out of your depth?”. One at a time thing too - if you don’t understand how you fixed a problem, chances are you didn’t fix it and there is a mine in the field waiting to blow your legs off just when you really needed to take a day.
Now there is one other way of problem solving which isn’t praised enough - not solving it. Redefine the problem in terms easier to solve and sell it to the customer. i.e. solve a slightly different similar problem which gets you far along the way. Understanding what a customer really wants is the key. We use counter-proposal as a means of communication. Customer will propose, and we will counter-propose (negotiate) until we identify the optimum deliverable, while checking each step of the way that we understand each other. What the customer gets in the end is either cheaper (80% of the work often costs 20% of the money) or better suited to their business (for example, fixes 80% of their problems each time they call us, and gets them ahead more immediately - the last 20% is anyway a thing they will change their mind about once the first 80% changes the game for them, and by the time they would get it, they probably won’t even need it). In my experience, IT customers don’t really know what is possible, or what will become possible after a delivery (and what won’t become possible), and how to exploit each consultant’s idiosyncrasies best (each team being better at some things than others). There is usually some room to optimise the scope of delivery to best fit both the consultant and the customer and keep everyone happy. If there isn’t, well it is best to step away.
(For the past few years I have mostly been interested in and working on long term product and customer relation development. We basically don’t take one-off customers any more. And having virtually no one-off customers probably isn’t where a beginner will start, or what most of the smaller team-based company consultants are usually at.)
Well, that’s actually a great video. Can i consider myself a digital mercenary if i work as freelance for college term papers writing service? Besides, this video is really helps to improve! Great share.
