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I've always seen a sense of humor as an essential component of problem solving. Stressy, serious, businesslike modes tend to get stuck in the weeds and miss the
by pksebben 4y ago
I've always seen a sense of humor as an essential component of problem solving. Stressy, serious, businesslike modes tend to get stuck in the weeds and miss the forest etc
- yakshaving_jgt 4y agoSeems like a false dichotomy to me. Authors can choose to write plainly and clearly.
- Jtsummers 4y agoThe books are actually clearly written. They also have some humor in them. The horror.
- yakshaving_jgt 4y agoWhy are you directing this sarcastic comment towards me?
- Apocryphon 4y agoThis blog is such a classic for that. http://computationaltales.blogspot.com http://computationaltales.blogspot.com
- pksebben 4y agothanks for this! there's some good stuff in here. Kinda reminds me of master foo http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/ten-thousand.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/ten-thousand.ht...
- sfpotter 4y agoIt isn’t an essential part of problem solving. I think the fact that you think any technical material that isn’t humorous is automatically “stressy” may mostly say something about you… :\ For what it’s worth, I do have a sense of humor. Harvey Birdman is one of my favorite shows. The Sebben and Sebben employee orientation video is on another level.
- pksebben 4y agoI'm afraid I wasn't communicating effectively. I have no problem with non-humorous technical material - the parent comment asked >How does the space reserved for jellybean stains guide the reader towards the desired problem-solving approach? ... and I was suggesting that perhaps the authors were using the medium as the message - I find that being relaxed helps with debugging, typically.