“1. Trying to red-pill someone in one sitting can be like trying to teach someone differential equations in one sitting. “
Yeah, this is uncharted waters for a lot of us obviously. I’m hoping I don’t cause any damage to them, but at the same time our work group has lost a couple of people “prematurely” (passed away), and another coworker I’ve worked with prior at another company has escaped a brush with cancer. Other people seem to be having a lot of “out for a doctor visit” more than normal. Sense of urgency on my part basically.
I’ve been fortunate with the FR Q site guiding me the past 2+ years with what I consider “inside information”.
I’ve also been blessed with what I consider “otherside information” that seems to come to me as well. You’ll have to wait for the book/movie(?) to come out for that story. Suffice it to say I look at it as my ancestors not so much helping me out from the otherside, more sitting around a campfire watching me with Jaegermeister shots at the ready and waiting for the next “he redpilled another one — Toast!!).
Engineers have to think a bit different, I’ll let you know how this goes.
Don’t push the newbies too hard or fast. Most folks, by far, are good for just one thing at a time. Even among engineers, they tend to do one thing well and shut out new stuff. I’ve been coaching people up on various disciplines for over half a century and have learned to be happy when I find the one thing they do well.
I’ve hired numerous people over the decades, trained them up in a part of the job, then they think they can make it on their own. I’ve loaned them money to buy their first machine, etc. Some of them still work for me but in their own shops. They’re happy as clams but tend to be limited to the first thing they learned how to make.
One of my favorite stories is a guy who worked for me about two years. He took an interest in making custom knives. He learned about hardening steel and made a knife for me before he left. The knife worked great. Never needed sharpening. About a year later the knife rolled off the bench, fell on the floor mat, and broke in half. If he had stayed another two months he would have learned about tempering. He had an aversion to reading books and never made it as a knife maker-——took a job as an assembler in a piping works. In other words: he hit his limit.
Be happy with however much conversion you can get out of your coworkers.