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We did a paper airplane test in 5th grade. We split into teams and made them like McDonnell Douglas, etc. First, we saw how many airplanes we could make and the
by orionblastar 2mo ago
We did a paper airplane test in 5th grade. We split into teams and made them like McDonnell Douglas, etc. First, we saw how many airplanes we could make and then how far they flew. Everyone was rushing to get the planes made, but I took my time and measured them to make sure every fold was done right. My planes flew the farthest, and our team won the government contract. The moral of the story was that haste makes waste.
- el_io 2mo agoYour team won government contract for paper planes?
- kfarr 2mo agoThey measured really really well
- orionblastar 2mo agoIt was a school experiment. The government doesn't want sloppy planes; they want them to be of high quality and fly far. The government was the teacher who decided who won.
- tdrgabi 2mo agoThere are anecdotes supporting almost any point. We've all heard about the "make 100 clay pots", or, sometimes it's photos group vs "make 1 perfect clay pot" group.
- orionblastar 2mo agoYeah, but I made more than 1 plane. You don't want planes that can't fly and crash because they were made sloppily and fast.
- tdrgabi 2mo agoSorry if it sounded like I was picking on your story, that wasn't my intention. I was just thinking out loud. You hear stories of "do 100, it beats doing 1" and "plan well and do 1, it beats doing 100", in the end... you sort of chose the stories that agree with you.
- orionblastar 2mo agoYeah, but if you do 100 things with low quality, it is going to be crappy. In the mid-1990s, I did quality control work on debugging code for Visual BASIC and ASP web pages. Now people are rushed to do sloppy work in quantity because it is done fast, not quality, where it is done right.