Wrong wrong wrong! You’d THINK in private sector, academia, or government… “you know what you know, and can do what you can do.” There are just different ways and places to express creativity and skills, but “you got this.”
Wrong, wrong, wrong!
Think Darmok.
https://lnkd.in/epXM2tqt
“Darmok” from Star Trek: The Next Generation.
The Enterprise crew encounters an alien species called the Tamarians, whose language is incomprehensible to the universal translator. The Tamarians speak entirely in allegory and metaphor, quoting their likely favorite television programs, cultural history and mythology to communicate concepts.
The universal translator can translate the individual words, but can’t convey the meaning because it never watched Tamarian television or heard their verbal history.
Captain Picard is trapped on a planet with the Tamarian captain Dathon, and they must find a way to communicate to survive.
The episode is considered one of the most famous and beloved episodes of TNG, often referred to in discussions about language and communication.
It originally aired as the second episode of the fifth season of TNG, September 30, 1991.
I found out for sure in the hallowed halls of Harvard graduate school, both as a student and later as “Expert in Residence” for the GSD and as a teacher and mentor — Academia and the Private Sector are about as different as, oh, say, Earth and Planet Tama!
And now, after a decade in Washington DC, know for sure that there’s yet another Planet Tama out there: the Federal Government, and a lot of satellite dwarf planets of agencies and silos in the federal government!
Case in point: https://lnkd.in/e5AS2_E5
Bone up on your universal translator and old television reruns from other planets, if you intend to move about between these three inhabited planets!
