Notice the number of shoulds. A list of what you should do is like training wheels: useful for beginners but not as much for the advanced. Instead of thinkin

Notice the number of shoulds. A list of what you should do is like training wheels: useful for beginners but not as much for the advanced. Instead of thinking in shoulds I like to think in terms of causes and effects. If you don't follow the law of demeter then these will be the effects. Then the programmer realizes they have a choice: even though the law of demeter usually brings about desirable consequences, maybe in a particular situation the effects of not following the law of demeter bring about the better set of consequences. Thinking in terms of causes and effects also loosens potential dogma.