Knowledge Work or just Scribe?

I was asked today: isn't HCI common sense? I replied "Yes its."
"Then why do we have to theorise?"
"Because common sense is not common," I reflected on what Martin Helander would say.

Science is not everything. Scientists do not hold all our knowledge. But science dominates our discourses. What they do not control are the practices and technologies.

Therefore, knowledge are far beyond just books we have written. It is about building excellent monuments, war machines, brilliant policies, and way of happiness. Much of which is written, yet between the lines, we act and we tool it.

Therefore, there are people who are extreme. One, someone who rejects all discourses as useless. Two, someone who thinks discourses hold all knowledge. The former is likely to be an engineer. The latter a scientist.

Rather, I like to think that both scientists and engineers should work together. The only difference is scientists' job is to write and record down all that's happening, reasoning the fundamentals, and spread them far and wide. Engineers deepen the fundamentals in practice. They shape things within their context, and make them real.

Turns out a lot of what scientists do are scribing, but good inscriptions turns out to change how people do things.