Soft Side of IT

I saw this ad on gizmodo last week & I giggle … And it’s from 1977s … I giggle more. It’s because I was imagining if I was in that era & I heard the term ‘Electronic Mail’, that’s probably would imagine the same thing. (Since most people could only dream of having a computer on their desk)

As a person who use e-mail everyday, I was thinking how could anyone thought was like that … But for a second I did imagine that. When thought more about it, I was looking at this as a expert & a novice. 

When you, the ‘expert‘, are talking about your passion to someone new, the audience sometimes seems clueless. The image above can probably represent is what your audience is imaging about what your ideas/goods/services looks like.

When you think: ‘It’s so simple … why don’t they get it?’; IT might be because they all ready know how it works …. while everyone else have no clue.

In a smaller scale, this happens a lot day to day in many jobs. When an e-mail out goes solving a issue at work…it ends up getting worse and people got confused.

This is happening because the knowledge we take for grants is actually news to others. Next time, when something similar happens, try to mediate & make sure everyone is on the same page before it gets more confusing.