Corporate training in a forest

Published 2025-06-04

tag(s): #failures #random-thoughts

This week there's a big training thingy in the office. I just walked by to get a coffee, and people were doing a "small group" activity with...you guessed it, Legos.

This is what I understand happened (yes, you can quote me on this): a bunch of people in the tech training industry took a philosophy course in the mid 90s, and heard that thing of If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

A couple days later, still engaged with the philosophical aspects of the question, they formulated their own version of it: If a training took place and no Legos were used, did any learning happen?
And soon they realized this wasn't an open-ended question, because:

Legos make people seem engaged. Which is the most important thing in the corporate world.
With Legos, you can stretch time and need less content. I sympathize with this one, not gonna lie.
Using Legos makes you seem modern and hip, a very important attribute in the tech corporate world. Because nothing matters most in corporate tech that to look like you are not a corporation.

They realized that none of the good reasons had anything to do with learning, but they were still very good reasons.
And since then, all tech trainings use Legos.

Cue X-files music

There's a group of truthers out there that ~~think~~ know that it was Lego Group who paid for that philosophy course, and planted someone to formulate the questions.
Do your own research.

...and one more thing

I knew one of the risks of having a blog was to make myself unemployable, and I have to be honest...it took longer than I expected.

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