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Sometimes people come to the correct conclusion without knowing how. And sometimes people come to the wrong conclusion with a painfully detailed process that re
by afterburner 5y ago
Sometimes people come to the correct conclusion without knowing how. And sometimes people come to the wrong conclusion with a painfully detailed process that really just led them astray. So maybe gut-level reactions shouldn't always be dismissed, and detailed reactions shouldn't always be held above gut level ones.
- skybrian 5y agoOkay, but why trust a stranger's gut reaction over your own? When you post your gut reaction, you are the stranger on the Internet. It doesn't matter who you are in real life.
- quanticle 5y agoBecause a stranger has an outside view. A stranger can see when something is weird or broken, and shouts when that weirdness or brokenness hurts them, versus the insider who is numbed by familiarity into taking the behavior of the system for granted. It's not just software, either! There's a common social phenomenon known as the "broken-stair" problem, where you have a toxic, abusive person in a community, and everyone in the community has just gotten used to that person's behavior and normalized it. Sometimes it takes an outsider to notice that this toxic person is a net harm to the community.
- afterburner 5y agoHonestly I was primarily thinking of coworkers commenting on work.