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(Unrelated to the e-mail topic) > A poor craftsman famously complains about his tools, Greg said, but a good craftsman knows how to choose excellent tools. Un
by blauditore 9y ago
(Unrelated to the e-mail topic)
> A poor craftsman famously complains about his tools, Greg said, but a good craftsman knows how to choose excellent tools.
Unless their company forces tools on them. :(
- Kenji 9y agoThe best craftsmen create their own tools.
- ivan_gammel 9y agoActually good craftsman knows how to use the tools available to him to do the job in the most effective way. Choice is a luxury that is not always present.
- 482794793792894 9y agoJust because you say that doesn't make it true, though. Sometimes a tool just is worse, even if you become skilled at it. I can try to work around Microsoft Word's UI by learning the keyboard shortcuts, but I can't do anything against Internet Explorer taking its sweet time loading webpages. No skill in the world will make that faster.
- ivan_gammel 9y agoWell, that's the point. If you can get your job done with IE (I can only guess what kind of job is that), you just do it without pointless clicking, pressing F1 button or anything else that does not belong to the path of success. Talks about "it's worse", "omg it's so slow", "why not firefox/chrome/whatever" are meaningless when you are in strict corporate environment with only IE allowed or even possible. True professionals do not pay much attention to the tools. They pick the best when they have choice or find the way to use what's available, because craftsmanship is not about the tools.