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One of the most dangerous ideologies is "all good things come to those who wait" or that waiting is a virtue. Applied by people working at all the levels of a
by PaulHoule 10mo ago
One of the most dangerous ideologies is "all good things come to those who wait" or that waiting is a virtue. Applied by people working at all the levels of a system for years and years it leads to steps that could be 30ms taking 30s.
- hinkley 10mo agoAnother variant is that suffering is a virtue. They say doctors make the worst patients. I wonder if programmers are the least useful of users.
- gsf_emergency_6 10mo agoMy current ideology: Wait on tasks that are urgent, Act on ideas that are important. Is that even more dangerous?
- hinkley 10mo agoSomehow I have a definition of The Last Responsible Moment that is both less and more urgent than most people's.
- gsf_emergency_6 10mo agoMost people, including Jeff Atwood? That would make it important!