Direction Or Implementation, Who have the upper hand?
As i experienced through years spent in MR and IT industry, i commonly heard people saying that to know technicality is trivial, could be learned easily, but knowing business is essential and most difficult. From our history, we know that all the glory and fame been enjoyed by directors, for example, we all know Shah Jahan (commissioned Taj Mahal), we hardly know anyone who built this splendid architecture and one of the most beautiful monuments of all time, and there're many...
I believe that time is changing now, especially in the field of machine learning and AI, where it's essential to know both i.e. technical implementation and business logic. The former tells if any, idea has practical feasibility given a particular scenario or tools at hand, and later always guide to work in a direction to reap benefits in specified time in terms of ROI. Knowing the best of both worlds is the need of an hour...
Interesting observation. I think there are a few points to ponder. Prior to the "information age" history was dictated by the powerful ones - in this case Shah Jahan. But even in the recent past we had a Jobs vs Wozniak scenario - Wozniak was the tech genius but Jobs was visionary. He understood the market, had vision of an ideal product, more connect with people and hence more fame. In general people don't care about technology. They are interested in what the technology enables. Now if someone can be peerless in both aspects then great but rarely you find someone that good in two things. Having said that the technologists will have more fame in the technologist community. E.g. people taking courses on Udemy perhaps won't know its CEO but will know Kirill Eremenko! Would love to hear other views here.