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The margins are infinitely expensive. "As much as possible" has no meaningful boundary, when working in a system that is too big to hold in your head. Mastery
by jstummbillig 3y ago
The margins are infinitely expensive. "As much as possible" has no meaningful boundary, when working in a system that is too big to hold in your head.
Mastery is alluring - it's just not very effective and certainly really bad advice for new software devs, who are in the worst possible position to judge the margins and what is useful.
- hef19898 3y agoExactly why new people, new to the job in general or just the system in question, need mentoring and leadership in doing so. And guess what you can do if you went through all of this? You can mentor and teach others, and if combined with doing, there is no better way to mastery than this, at least not one I am aware of.