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Interesting; this is sort of the flip side of one of the slides here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17532360 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1753236
by wool_gather 8y ago
Interesting; this is sort of the flip side of one of the slides here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17532360 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17532360 "Cognitive Distortions of People Who Get Stuff Done". One of the items is "Correct Overgeneralization", which seems to be basically what you describe in the last paragraph. Making assumptions based on experience, but being mostly right. Surely there's some balance to be struck: there's value in experience -- it can help you move faster -- but you have to be able to recognize and question your assumptions if need be. Sounds like your "smarter techs" were missing that step. They didn't circle back after their shortcuts failed them.
- duxup 8y agoAbsolutely there is value in experience! I don't want to discount that at all. I was way more productive longer-term for sure. And those techs weren't bad by any means. The critical points in my example were failing to properly define the problem, and to some extent failure to communicate when engaging engineering created more work, delay, and frustration.