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Jazz is an excellent analogy. Been in software dev for 30 years. It's hard to explain to hirers that one can only play jazz well (i.e. know what matters in a so
by pcblues 4y ago
Jazz is an excellent analogy. Been in software dev for 30 years. It's hard to explain to hirers that one can only play jazz well (i.e. know what matters in a software project as you go) after a long time, so trust me :)
I tried to bottle it in this document:
https://pcblues.com/assets/pdf/approaching_software_projects.pdf https://pcblues.com/assets/pdf/approaching_software_projects...
- hinkley 4y agoI realized at some point I got put in charge of things to shut me up. Someone would ask me why and I would launch into a treatise on all of the confounding factors and cognitive science reasons and and and OMG shut up already. Clearly you care about this more than I do, why don’t you do it? Don’t put a hyperkinetic person in charge of something thinking that you’ll call their bluff.