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On the other side of the analogy, Mr. Jeffries & co seem to think that: - Everybody should "play baseball"; playing baseball is the perfect way to "have fun" b
by genezeta 5y ago
On the other side of the analogy, Mr. Jeffries & co seem to think that:
- Everybody should "play baseball"; playing baseball is the perfect way to "have fun" because "the proponents of baseball" said so.
- If you aren't having fun, then you're not playing baseball correctly; Playing baseball correctly necessarily leads to having fun.
- Softball is just plain wrong; lots of people play softball and seem to have a lot of fun doing it, but they are clearly wrong and not having fun because they don't follow the rules that the "proponents of baseball" dictated 20+ years ago.
- Oh, yes, I sell baseball courses; but this doesn't make me biased at all when criticizing other baseball coaches or even other ways of having fun. It's just that all the other ways are wrong, always.
- fifilura 5y agoAn excellent example of a straw-man.
- convolvatron 5y agoit would be if it didn't resonate so strongly
- fifilura 5y agoI meant the original article.
- Moto7451 5y agoI don’t know specifically of Mr. Jeffries ideology but his parable hit home for me. My work often runs projects or chooses software in a similar manner to how Baseball was modified. It ends up poorly because there’s a common thread of ignoring the warnings and best practices of the authors of the products or software. As an example, we moved our apps to the 12 Factor Manifesto style but not really. It was decided that some requirements were silly and new incompatible requirements were added. Now our apps won’t run in a 12 Factor environment and 12 Factor apps won’t run in our own environment. I just spent about a week getting an open source 12 Factor app running in our environment because of those changes. I don’t believe our changes added any material benefits to the business or how we work, let alone offer an improvement over 12 Factors. The way we got there wasn’t far off from the story. Lots of criticism about how things were inefficient or won’t scale despite plenty of evidence to the contrary.