Tuesday, June 12, 2012

paradox of blaming tools

“A bad workman blames his tools”

But the question isn’t about who’s good at using the tools or not, but whether the tools are optimum.
If you always assume that the workers are lazy, then you’re never going to invest in the resources / tools they need. So what’s the balance between the right tools and the right effort? Perhaps there should be a voting system to determine if the tools are good or not. But the paradox is, the lazy workers will blame the tools regardless, and the good workers could always use better tools, so how do you split the two win / loss scenarios?
Hire an economist to figure this out or not, the paradox of tool blaming  still holds true. Blaming the tools is easy, improving them is much harder.


-Prashant Khorana