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I think the point is that it's a psychological hack to just get started. It's making a point, and the point is that it's even helpful without running the comman
by patcon 2y ago
I think the point is that it's a psychological hack to just get started. It's making a point, and the point is that it's even helpful without running the commands. Yeah, sure you can immediately make it run the command as soon as it exists -- the article is not implying that that's wrong
- IanCal 2y agoYou also get to a point that's functional but not optimal very quickly. Improvements can then be added incrementally by different people as and when it's worthwhile.
- SoftTalker 2y agoAnd often it doesn’t need to be optimal. If the functional process takes 5 minutes and you do it once a month then you can’t spend more than 5 hours optimizing it before you’re going backwards. https://xkcd.com/1205/ https://xkcd.com/1205/
- patcon 2y agoI feel the place where that intuition might have an exception is where you want a culture change, or you want to communicate a culture of "anyone can do this and is encouraged to". Sometimes it makes sense to automate something that doesn't save time, like putting it in a chatbot command that invites others to run it :)