[zugi]

An engineer friend of mine, after a decade in industry where he rose to management, decided to go get an MBA at a top ten management school. Compared to engineering, he said it was easy, since everything they teach you is obvious common sense.

I thought that meant the degree was worthless. But he said just the opposite. Even though it's all obvious common sense, it really helps to have someone lay it all out together and remind you to think about those obvious common sense things as you go about managing a business.

[sandspar]

Common sense is gold. It's also hard to find. Ask yourself where, if you were interested, you might find a book full of common sense about say, the airline industry. It's a hard question, right? Most stuff will be either too technical, or too shallow, or simply annoying.

Relatedly, I've found that AIs are spectacularly good at common sense. Nowadays, if I ask myself where I can find common sense about the airline industry, the answer is "Ask an AI, of course." We've never had the ability to find common sense so easily.