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This is brilliant, reminds me of the story I heard of how Michelangelo was working on a statue, might have been the David, and the patron walked in and said som
by kdamken 11y ago
This is brilliant, reminds me of the story I heard of how Michelangelo was working on a statue, might have been the David, and the patron walked in and said something along the lines of, "Looks good, but the nose is a little big, can you make it a little smaller?".
Michelangelo knew the nose was just right, so he grabbed a handful of marble dust, went up to the face and pretended to chisel it while slowly letting out his handful of dust.
When he was done, the patron said, "There! It's perfect."
Really wish I had had a button like that back when I was doing audio production.
- cle 11y agoSounds like a "duck" in programming parlance: http://blog.codinghorror.com/new-programming-jargon/ http://blog.codinghorror.com/new-programming-jargon/
- tommorris 11y agoacts_as_enterprisey gives you a similar effect for Rails. https://github.com/airblade/acts_as_enterprisey https://github.com/airblade/acts_as_enterprisey
- Panoramix 11y agoWas it because he couldn't tell, or because he didn't want to push on the issue?
- Buge 11y agoCouldn't tell. See bikeshedding. People just want to feel like they contributed something. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law_of_triviality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law_of_trivialit...
- Panoramix 11y agoInteresting article. In my experience, the converse is often true: Engineers want to solve the difficult issues, while the more trivial get relatively little attention and end up causing most of the issues.