I was just considering upon this, along the lines of: “Are non-tech people, just morbidly and tirelessly self-negating themselves?”
As in, are they just lazy after all, or defying their own cognitive capabilities? I mean, if you tale a look at the world, most of th adults can cook, can’t they? And cooking in particular involves following a series of instructions that, in the meanwhile might prove so much more dangerous than dealing with everyday tech in this world. For example, there are sharp blades (a.k.a. knives) which might kill oneself or gravely injury them, but still day after day, they use it with all naturality. Or dealing with fire and the serious burns one might inflict. Of course there might be disasters and accidents here and there, but on average, people can handle themselves and follow the recipes (and lots of recipes) pretty willingly.
So, it leave me baffled, that, when it comes to something other than what is readily at their fingertips, they become shocked, frozen, and look at a new program UI screen and stay stuck and just promptly say “I’m a negation, and I can’t do this!” No shit, Jack! Of course you, can’t, because you haven’t even tried, ffs! Because you are cutting yourself short just because it’s an uncommon interface and you automatically default it to, “I can’t”, or rather “I won’t!” and then you gleely go on with your life doing on average even more complex stuff on a day to day basis!
Why?!?!?
It is literally clicking a few buttons and seeing around. But it seems that people have that mythical perception of “The Big Red Button” which lives somewhere along their systems, or in the middle of the world wide web where in which, if the misclick something, all pandemonium will unleash havoc in this world. And people just default for their common “I –something– not capable” when it comes to computre, for no good reason at all!
All I am saying is this, based on my experience and seeing a few others right next to me for a while, it seems that they want shortcuts, and to lean on those who are more tech-savvy without trying or having to “““sacrifice””” themselves (read sacrificing as in: just taking a few minutes and clicking and seeing what stuff does, and literally navigating). A friend of mine which I was doing a project with promptly said to me “I am a negation, I can’t do this”, without even trying to open a link of Notion for a shared document we were supposed to craft together.
Funny thing is: the horrid and non-intuitive friggin’ MS Word interface which she and millions of people use every friggin’ day in this world is WAY more complex by orders of magnitude than a simple Kanban on Notion. And she can navigate sub-menus to reach the “Align” section of the text.
So it leaves me with the impression that: 1) “common” people are just horrified of dealing with unknown new tech that they haven’t before (which doesn’t ring so true because they use chatbots and social media all the while) or 2) they are lazy to just promptly handle it to someone else, when it is literally just a few clicks away whatever-it-is-that-they-need-to-do.
It just gets on my nerves sometimes, I was going to say that it is not their fault, but maybe it is. For not just taking a small leap beyond your cocoon of comfort and certainty and trying things out.
Or maybe, a third hypothesis is that they lack the confidence-creativity to just try things out. But how in the world are they doing stuff way more complex in real life than just clicking a few buttons and joining A + B = C and seeing what happens?
I honestly don’t understand… Or maybe they don’t wanna understand.