Comments by "Christian Baune" (@programaths) on "Thank you." video.

  1. It's a "production" kind of job where troubleshooting can be charted/diagrammed. As you said, people pay you to not have to justify a soldering station in the kitchen etc. You forgot to highlight that you can go off the [flow]chart because of your experience and practice. You can deploy heuristics which come with experience. I work in IT field. Kind of "All in one" in software industry. I can teach BPMN, UML, languages and design patterns (It's already a LOT! Can fill a life). Thing is that people do not struggle with code or graphical language. Anyone can learn BPMN, C, or design patterns in few days. The big part is using those tool in the right way and being smart. There is a lot of human comprehension going on. People find that "requirements gathering" phase is expensive because they see them as specifications and drawings they could have done themselves! The truth is that even with a tutorial, they could not. I requires practice, experience and a juicy brain. We also invite people and give them valuable advice for free. They often not recognize them as valuable because we come with them quickly and they seem obvious when you hear them. But thinking about it in the first place require experience and/or a juicy brain. I like how you see business. I believe we share this view: "There is business opportunity when people can create plus-value for other people". Today business is more about draining value from customer. Good business is when you can do things better, faster and cheaper for someone else. If I need a board repair, sure, I can attempt it and use your video. But I will take twice or more your time for a potentially good result. If I pay you two third of what it would cost me, I did a gain. I can spend that time doing something else. Maybe providing a service to someone else who will pay me two thirds of the time/means he would need. Magically, we have "free money". The total value increased! But business do not looks like this. People do not see it that way. They want to maximize their profit and reduce their cost and do it by overselling and underpaying. So, they are victim of it. Total value increase is on decline; It's not yet negative because some people share the "plus-value" vision and slow down the process: Not everyone is selfish. It's not anymore a trade economy... Thanks for your videos!
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