Tellers and Plumbers

our refuge is ingenuity, not routine

Bank tellers, once everywhere, offered short-lived relationships built around a deposit or withdrawal. Teller-like vocations trend that direction, with narrow interaction replaced by drill-down directories of options.

That raconteur in the speakers is a rubber duck counsellor, fetching weather or music you’d like to hear. Likewise, a doc bot mimics empathy with a flow-chart to infer cause, push a pill, or schedule who next to see.

But plumbers (of all manner) remain immune to the desperation of replacement; for now, for good reason. They’re able to design lines of flow around most-any obstacle, for the refuge of humanity is ingenuity—not routine.

About Me

Roger Kenyon was North America’s first lay canon lawyer and associate director at the Archdiocese of Seattle. He was involved in tech (author of Macintosh Introductory Programming, Mainstay) before teaching (author of ThinkLink: a learner-active program, Riverwood). Roger lives near Toronto and offers free critical thinking and character development courses online.

“When not writing, I’m riding—eBike, motorbike, and a mow cart that catches air down the hills. One day I’ll have Goldies again.”