I’ve long shied away from subjective, opinion style articles for two main reasons; firstly, I’m not one to think that people actually care what’s on my mind and secondly, they seem to do more harm than good. When there are opinions flying about the last thing you want to be adding is further opinion.
Today, however, I’m breaking that rule a little, as this is something that does affect me a lot, and not something that I’m aware people have discussed before.
Before I go any further, though, I must state clearly that this isn’t a criticism of my readers, or anybody else. This is merely an observation.
There seems to be a problem – and I’m sure it’s not exclusive to our industry – where people just don’t seem to think for themselves. Time and again people write blog posts explaining abc and people will constantly ask "what about xyz?"
Instead of taking the knowledge that the author has imparted and applying it to their context, they will put that responsibility on the author’s shoulders. People aren’t thinking for themselves.