Engineering resources are produced by production equipment that cannot be distributed separately from the brain of the individual engineer, and ownership belongs to the individual engineer.
Sometimes non-engineers say things like, “If an engineer did this, wouldn’t that be the overall optimization?” or something like that.
- How this looks to an engineer is like “I have a 10,000 yen bill in your wallet, let’s all go see a movie together, everyone is happy to see a movie, so it’s overall optimal”.
- That’s not total optimization.
- The reason why such a misunderstanding occurs is because engineers misinterpret their “time” as if it were a free resource!
orthographical variants
- Engineering Resources / Developer Resources / Engineer Time.
- Non-engineer / non-engineer.
- Cannot be distributed / non-transferable resource. relevance
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