#### [[Knowledge Worker]] --- > "Workers whose main capital^[human-created assets that can enhance one's power to perform economically useful work.] is knowledge. > Examples include > - programmers > - physicians > - pharmacists > - architects > - engineers > - scientists > - design thinkers > - public accountants > - lawyers > - & academics > > and any other white-collar workers, whose line of work requires one to "think for a living"." > -- [Wikipedia](https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Knowledge_worker) If *capital* is human created assets that improve one's power and ability to perform economically useful work, then a perfectly apt example is **knowledge** itself. The more **knowledge** you have around a particular topic, subject, or tool; the better you are able to leverage it for improved gain, performance, or output. You can never know too much, and the more knowledge you have the better off in almost all situations. Knowledge workers rely on their brains to perform work where as other disciplines like laborers use primarily their body. However [[All work requires the health of the human body|all work requires the health of the human body]]. --- Tags: [[Knowledge]] - [[Knowledge Economy]] - [[Knowledge Formation]] - [[Work]] Reference: Related: - [[The curating of a zettelkasten slip box is an active practice in knowledge building and spaced repetition]] - [[Most modern education focuses on improving storage strength and memorization of isolated facts instead of building connections and formulating knowledge]] - [[Formulating knowledge is an active practice in seeing the connections between atoms of information]] - [[Asking questions to learn is not seen as a valid way of increasing ones knowledge Rather it is instead used as an avenue of personal attack or shame]]