[qwertyuiop924]

>Engineering in the real world is maybe 30% calculations and typical "sciency" work, the other 70% is documentation and communicating to people.

>Being smart isn't enough sometimes

Congratulations. You've learned two things that some people go their entire lives without understanding.

And I make no hyperbole. Erik Naggum didn't learn this, and he's far from the only one.

It's really something that we should put a greater effort into teaching...

[codeonfire]

cyanoacry just learned another viewpoint. If you work in a heavily political environment, a process heavy environment, or one in which the "calculations" are not appreciated, then yes, your viewpoint would be to put down the keyboard/slide rule and just communicate. In other environments, actual working results can silence people that are trying to "communicate" their way to success.

[qwertyuiop924]

True. But in some contexts, communication does matter. A lot.

Some would say that it never matters at all.