But I still keep my education alive because I know there’s a pot of gold to be gained in the future as a result.

Experience is a very important, yet lost, part of engineering. When I was in college some engineering professors were frustrated mathematicians. They could derive the formulas to explain how any circuit works … they just couldn’t build a working circuit.

Dave

You an only do so many activities a day and if your goal involves “doing” and “reading” is taking up your time; the activity has to be diminished.

I think what happens is that when people read, they visualize and live vicariously through reading…just like “TV..ing…”.

I think Guy’s main argument was all about critical vs creative thinking or so to say the tension that exists between the black hat and the green hat (in De Bono’s language). While critical thinking might be required to drive the company in a particular direction (read strategy, marketing), a start up might benefit more if it derives most of its energies from green hat thinking (innovative – mostly done by its engineers). I think an empirical analysis of the founding members (MBAs vs Engineers) of the more successful “engineering start up” companies might also point in the same direction.

Yes, I’d agree. The problem isn’t that relationships are too subjective, random and complex to reduce down that much and still be right for everyone.