It seems to me that people often doubt their good decisions and defend their bad ones. Where does the fear to be out front come from and where does the fear to be wrong come from?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear%2C_uncertainty_and_doubt
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Friday, June 6, 2008
Why "Altar of Cruft"?
Necrobious and I write software and we like to talk about it. There is an endless stream of things to talk about related to software, but he and I often come back to a central theme...
Do you tear something up and start over or do you dig in and figure out what is there?
Software and the people that write it are unique in that they are forced more than most people to question the assumptions about what they are working on and inevitably other things in their lives constantly. By assumptions I mean all of the things that you take for granted while making a choice in life. Everything we do requires assumptions, from taking a single step to publishing a new piece of code.
So we have a lot to talk about and maybe we'll do some of it here.
Do you tear something up and start over or do you dig in and figure out what is there?
Software and the people that write it are unique in that they are forced more than most people to question the assumptions about what they are working on and inevitably other things in their lives constantly. By assumptions I mean all of the things that you take for granted while making a choice in life. Everything we do requires assumptions, from taking a single step to publishing a new piece of code.
So we have a lot to talk about and maybe we'll do some of it here.
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