Comments for I Am the Architect of My Life http://nicoletedesco.wordpress.com The mind, computing, architecture and what ought to be built Sun, 11 Dec 2011 20:49:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Technological Unemployment, the Architecture Profession, and My Worth as an Author by Nicole Tedesco http://nicoletedesco.wordpress.com/2011/10/02/technological-unemployment/#comment-11860 Sun, 11 Dec 2011 20:49:34 +0000 http://nicoletedesco.wordpress.com/?p=447#comment-11860 It is this trust aspect that makes me think that the IASA curriculum needs to focus more completely on professional ethics and the worldview required to develop and adhere to those ethics. (I also conceptualize “ethics” in the widest, philosophical sense, and not simply the “shall nots” of simple pledge.)

]]> Comment on Technological Unemployment, the Architecture Profession, and My Worth as an Author by Nicole Tedesco http://nicoletedesco.wordpress.com/2011/10/02/technological-unemployment/#comment-11859 Sun, 11 Dec 2011 20:45:11 +0000 http://nicoletedesco.wordpress.com/?p=447#comment-11859 While professionals have internalized their practice to the point that recognition and practice of subtleties are “automatic”, I have often thought that the real purpose of a professional was to be a trusted practitioner of their associated craft. Professionals are credentialed, sometimes even through force of law. Professionals are trusted to make decisions about life and death, sickness and health, wealth and poverty, freedom and confinement, ownership or serfdom. Professionals can be sued, while the non-professional can claim ignorance. Trust is what enables customers to place their fate into the hands of a stranger.

]]> Comment on Technological Unemployment, the Architecture Profession, and My Worth as an Author by Mark Goetsch http://nicoletedesco.wordpress.com/2011/10/02/technological-unemployment/#comment-11848 Sun, 11 Dec 2011 17:42:33 +0000 http://nicoletedesco.wordpress.com/?p=447#comment-11848 This is where the professional fits within the coasean scheme. The purpose of a professional is to enable efficient transactions based on his/her expertise, at least in a coasean world. Building architects, lawyers, and doctors all do this. Without these professions it would be necessary for someone to learn this material. However it is more than learning. Internet searches are not enough. The core of a professional, at least according to Schon (The refelective practitioner) and Abbott (A system of Professions) is the way that the professional internally processes this information that adds the value. The 3-4 years in a school learning how to process this information in a particular way is then leveraged across multiple clients.

The economic aspect of this is the challenge. To attract the best people to a profession requires some degree of financial stability, lest they all be wild-eyed entrepreneurs. Business, on the other hand, always seeks to push down this cost by finding cheaper substitutes (i,e, the Internet etc.). This is why the barrier to entry for these professions remains high (as opposed to ITIL and PMI which lead to very commoditized usage). This is what FEAPO. CAEAP, IASA and other organizations have to focus on to be professionals.

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