"Around the modeling interwebs, it seems like everyone is suddenly kung-fu fighting about "basic modeling skills" and, honestly, I have no desire to join in. It's all stupid for a few reasons.
There is no agreed-upon threshold for "basic", so it's all subjective.
People who throw the term around non-ironically are usually humorless pedantic assholes, so whether or not it actually is condescending it comes across as such.
And it's just so…damn…tiresome.
Instead, I wanted to take a moment to explore some of the absurd rabbit holes that we can find ourselves running down as modelers. In the past 24 hours, I've encountered three. And as I was thinking on the drive to work this morning, the level of s given about such insignificant things is probably baffling to anybody on the outside…."
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