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> One day I’m spending 10 hours at my desk writing blog posts for my daily blog schedule. Going for quantity over quality I see.

• dgb23 5y ago
  https://blog.codinghorror.com/quantity-always-trumps-quality/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/quantity-always-trumps-quality...
  • sombremesa 5y ago
    The ceramic anecdote gets thrown around a lot, but it seems like a third approach - where theory is combined with practice and deliberate efforts are made to refine subsequent products after each build - would’ve produced a better quality result than the quantity group. In fact, isn’t that what a group focused on quality would actually do rather than sit around theorizing? Did this actually happen?
    • dgb23 5y ago
      Right! Practice can get you very far, until it doesn't, this is when theory comes in to give you perspective and provides new approaches to try and practice. It's not one way or the other, but there is perhaps a tendency to overestimate one and underestimate the other, especially in relation to ability. I for example have the tendency to feel as if I get something when I read theory, when in fact I need deliberate practice to really get it. For me, doing means understanding. Others might overestimate what they know because they are so good at what they do (in the way they do it) etc. It's psychological traps and Dunning Kruger Effects all over the place!
• cyberge99 5y ago
  He could have a backlog of projects he’s done and wishes to document publicly (something I’m doing). I’m not sure if he’s doing a post per day, or putting time every day. Blogging well is not trivial.