knowledge workers
also referred to as: knowledge worker
5 statements across 5 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Oct 16, 2018 by Jennifer Garvey Berger · across every show →
Everything said about knowledge workers, oldest first
Oct 16, 2018
Garvey Berger: Knowledge workers are valued for willingness to learn, not existing knowledge
“I think that means that the core attribute is not how much you know, but how much you're willing to learn and how much you're willing to question what you know. If what we want is, is stuff that's known, Google will do that for you, right? Like you don't, we d…”
Dec 24, 2019
Pasricha: Average person reads 100,000 digital words and gets 147 emails daily
“According to the University of California, the average person reads a 100,000 words per day today. It's called Instagram comments, Twitter feeds, blog rolls, news headlines, texts, alerts, and notifications, and the average knowledge worker receives a 147 emai…”
Feb 2, 2021 bullish
Mullainathan: Knowledge workers will increasingly review objective 'game tape' of decisions
“I think where we're going to head with this is already seen in sports is that an athlete has a coach who sits with them and looks at the tape.
Shane Parrish: Right.
Sendhil Mullainathan: The tape is the objective.
Shane Parrish: And I'm going to help you inter…”
Jun 1, 2021
Knowledge workers resist changing minds because identity is tied to judgment
“It's hard in a knowledge environment, though, right? Because You have so much of your worth. You want to contribute to something. I think there's a biological need to contribute to something larger than us. And if your identity, you're not mechanically making …”
Feb 8, 2022
Parrish: The need to be right blinds knowledge workers to new data
“And then when you need to be right, you spend all of your time and effort, not only, you know, probably unconsciously undermining other people but trying to prove that you're right to other people and you're closed to new data. You're closed to different persp…”