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The less experienced a person is, the shorter their deadlines should be and the narrower their scope.
by whiddershins 5y ago
The less experienced a person is, the shorter their deadlines should be and the narrower their scope.
- rektide 5y agoto what ends? to milking every drop of productivity out of them? to snubbing their agency & crushing their soul? wrestling with big things, bringing stuff together, toil, is not for everyone, whatever level of experience. but our industry guards constantly against anything but the safe path, actively obstructs good & interesting efforts, relies on charisma & personality to get permissiom to step beyond the safe & apparent paths. most companies indeed don't really need or benefit from truly exceptional work, from harder battles being engaged in & fought, so I'm sympathetic. but it's no less of a waste of potential, and this industry lacks good testing grounds for us worker's real mettle.
- whiddershins 5y agoI’m not sure what you think I’m saying. In general it takes more experience and internal organization skills to do larger, broader, longer timeline, less well defined projects and finish them. In my experience, the best way to get there is to start smaller, and get feedback sooner. This is true with everything: writing, music, film, home improvement ... you don’t learn to surf on 10 ft waves. Edit: I’ve seen far more people be discouraged and burned out by incompletable (for them) projects that are unsuccessful than from doing small and well defined tasks that aren’t creative enough.