If you want to build a team of innovative problem-solvers, you should value the humanities just as much as the sciences, says entrepreneur Eric Berridge. He shares why tech companies should look beyond STEM graduates for new hires — and how people with backgrounds in the arts and humanities can bring creativity and insight to technical workplaces.
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Yeah, science needs the flexible con- everytime. If not, it will be worse than zombies :-0
finally someone says it!
1st comment
Software development businesses are so fixated on new tech, being ‘creative’ and ‘awesome’ that they often forget who pays the bills.
The lack of customer focus is what kills those small businesses that start off well because once the customer or consumer interaction is lost, you’re not making software or solutions for them any more – you’re making it for you and you’re probably going to get it wrong.
His Eyes,,,they’re so shiny
That’s called ‘marketing’. Most humanities majors are useless sjws.
Ellirkos marketing is based on hunan information obtained from the humanity studies and neurology…still didn’t get it huh?
Applied Humanities = You want fries with that?
Citation?
Just realized how overrated stem is.
How? Everything from medicine to the internet requires something in STEM.
Our nation runs on STEM. I agree that we must not be over reliant on it but it is not overrated.
good point. sorry bad word chice
What I’ve been saying for years… No sense in being so good at engineering and prideful about it if you can’t think and all you engineer is bullshit or whatever you’re told to do. The current system only encourages hard working mindless tools of people rather than those who can actually see the forest for the trees and do something.
I really wanted to like this video five times. Inspirational talk! ❤
Fantastic speech.
Lol so you hired a marketing department. Wow.
being a renaissance man my entire life….about time!!!!! Oh, and I am a tech guy and an artist.
What’s more important, the data or the jazz? Sure, sure, ‘Information should be free’ and all that- but anyone can set information free. The jazz is in how you do it, what you do it to, and in almost getting caught without getting caught. The data is 1’s and 0’s. Life is the jazz.
~ Sinder Roze
Was in chaios of dealing abt my future and carrier!!and so found this video…. which made me smile 🙂
I am a tech person but I have been saying that we need a well rounded workforce to progress
Biology can tell you how to edit genetic information. Physics tells you how to harness nuclear power. Chemistry tells you how to bend materials to your will. Engineering tells you how to build the machines that do that.
Humanities? They tell you how to apply it ethically and effectively.
Einomies Everything has its place.
Utter horseshit.
He should call google, facebook etc asap and tell them to replace the computer engineers with musicians and bartenders.
There could be a role for the humanities in technology, but don’t think that nowadays they are taught critical thinking, which is a skill. They are taught critical thought which – in spite what the name might suggest – is a political dogma.
There is no flexibility of thought there to be found.
You mean they are taught “critical theory”. Yeah, too many people confuse “critical theory” with critical thinking.
Yeah …. my bad
This guy is about 2 years ahead of his time. Which in my book puts him right on time.