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the word best is highly problematic. best in every possible situation? impossible. only an idiot would believe something so stupid. so it must be best under cer
by floydnoel 2y ago
the word best is highly problematic. best in every possible situation? impossible. only an idiot would believe something so stupid. so it must be best under certain circumstances which means others are best under different circumstances.
- SpicyLemonZest 2y agoWould you say that only an idiot believes in speed limits? Again, the point isn’t that some practices are ontologically best, but that you must limit the freedom of individual teams to decide what’s best in order to achieve organization-wide standards.
- klodolph 2y agoThe problem is the actual term itself, “best practices”. It really seems like we might be speaking past each other… the question is not about whether the thing you have, which you call “best practices”, should exist. It seems like you are arguing that best practices, the thing, should exist. But I am arguing that “best practices”, the term, should not be used.