I’m trying out our work typeface in various colours and weights. Hoping there aren’t issues with using it on a blog as long as it’s not for profit. Read this excellent article/interview with Clive Thompson for our weekly newsletter and agree with it, though find that school experience varies wildly from one country to another. Some give you things to work out on your own only to offer help at the first sign of weakness. Mine forced you into a lot of independent thought, with no teamwork or classroom help. It’s not a bad thing if you go on to university armed with this skill of working solo, but in the UK only 36% of people do. What do the rest do or feel like?
my issue with school #2 – they kept insisting that there was only one right answer to every problem…
My experience with jobs in 2 big companies (one really huge) is that most of the time work is done with others, but responsibilities are individual. There is not much team work but “multiple resource projects” where everyone has his own piece to deliver as part of the big end result, only a few people are managing the interactions and the silo approach is the habit, not the exception. Is school good to prepare you for this? Maybe.