Is the knowledge in your head, or in your hands?

In The Daily Stoic book for today, the authors cite EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 4.11.6–7:

“The proper work of the mind is the exercise of choice, refusal, yearning, repulsion, preparation, purpose, and assent.”

In The Daily Drucker for this day, Joseph A. Maciariello points to this quote from Peter Drucker: “Management’s duty is to preserve the assets of the institution in its care.”

Knowledge workers are an asset, not a cost.

A knowledge worker can work anytime, anywhere, for any firm or hospital or university, that chooses to be their employer.

The firm could give that employee a laptop and a smartphone.

You know, to take whatever “knowledge” they have in their heads, and make something.

Manual workers must be in onsite jobs, as Elon Musk demonstrates with SpaceX and Tesla.

But me or you? We might work “in the cloud.”

I started out in film editing.

I had a curiosity about movies, not only about the people in the films themselves, but also the people who made them.

In high school I learned Avid Media Composer. In college, I learned Adobe Premiere.

Shot, reverse shot, J cuts, L cuts, keyframe. I could train a machine to learn editing.

Oh wait, Adobe already did. Automated video editing with AI.

Another tool I can choose to learn.

But ultimately, theories in my head must be tested by my hands to verify its usefulness.

ACTION POINT: Is the knowledge in your head, or in your hands?