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You want openness to being mentored, but you're rejecting the possibility you're incorrect?
by xapata 9y ago
You want openness to being mentored, but you're rejecting the possibility you're incorrect?
- hinkley 9y agoThe possibility that the big ball of mud people are right? That hero worshipping is better than team building? That the people who still write software the way it was done 25 years ago know something that the rest of us don’t? That all of the techniques and tools I pressed my face against the glass for 12 years ago that are now considered de rigeur are bad? That hoping for the other half of things I wish for will happen in the next 12 is a pipe dream? No, I’m not open to that kind of education. I’ve had plenty of volunteers to teach me if I ever change my mind. In the meantime I’ll try to work in the half (quarter?) of the industry that strives for something better. As someone once told me, I don’t need to be a good fit for every job. I just need to be a good fit for one at a time.
- xapata 9y agoNot sure where all those rhetorical questions came from. They seem like non-sequiturs.
- hinkley 9y agoMy point is that there is only so much you can learn from someone exhibiting a raft of bad actor behaviors. Life is short. Find better mentors instead of trying to eek out a little wisdom from bad ones.
- xapata 9y agoHow do you know who is a "bad one"? If you discount the "little wisdom" of people you disagree with, you're creating a a confirmation bias problem. A good scientist tries to find evidence that contradicts her theory. Evidence that is consistent with the theory proves nothing.
- hinkley 9y agoI already told you and you called them non sequiturs.