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That's basically the optimist view in the article, I think. Optimism in this case isn't about pretending the thing is good, it's about believing it can be good.
by kerkeslager 9y ago
That's basically the optimist view in the article, I think. Optimism in this case isn't about pretending the thing is good, it's about believing it can be good.
- jacquesm 9y agoOr even simply about believing that it can be better than it is right now. That may eventually lead to it being good but that's not a given.
- lomnakkus 9y agoIt's not even that, I think. It's just a... "Trade-offs exist: Deal with it." type thing? If I can offer an anecdote which is tangential: I like to say that I'm actually an Optimist, but it's just that I've been disappointed so many times that I may sound like a Pessimist. Honestly, I think it requires a certain amount of optimism/hope for the future to keep working in this industry. The people are usually great, but the systems (both technological and organizational) are mostly just awful. Awful, awful, awful. I take a little solace in the fact that I can (most of the time) fix the technical systems.
- kough 9y agoI read the optimist view as more idealistic – "not rock forever on a sea of changing assumptions", "the thing out rightly be defined", "shouldn't contain compromise".