You see dull, repetitious work ahead of you. If you avoid it, you’re lazy. If you feel too icky not to find a better way, then you’re constructively dissatisfie

You see dull, repetitious work ahead of you. If you avoid it, you’re lazy. If you feel too icky not to find a better way, then you’re constructively dissatisfied. Your 4-year-old daughter demonstrates that what you’re doing is needlessly complicated, arbitrary, or meaningless. Did she do it by being “dumb”? No. She did it by being unassuming and asking simple questions, like “why?”—without fear of offending. It’s all about open-mindedness and a light touch, not stupidity and laziness. The sense is much better conveyed by koans[1] than this kind of blunt language. But of course, blunt language makes for eye-catching titles. [1] http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html