4 ms·
> So, do you always do what is obviously right? I certainly don't, and I think most people are like me. Being reminded to not do things that are obviously wrong
by paulojreis 11y ago
> So, do you always do what is obviously right? I certainly don't, and I think most people are like me. Being reminded to not do things that are obviously wrong, even when I know they're wrong, actually does help keep me from doing them.
This would depend on the obviousness at stake. I don't know what your daily job is, but I imagine that there are things so basic that don't really need "remembering". Imagine a programmer being told how a "if" works; that's the obviousness level at stake in this article.
- beat 11y agoI should obviously not get so caught up in reading that I miss my train stop, but I often do (or I get on the wrong train). Consider, for a programmer, the obviousness of not using hardcoded values. But we do all the time, as a placeholder while we finish a bigger picture thing. We fully intend to fix it later, but we don't, until it bites us in the ass. That's just one example. Most programmers I know do things they know they shouldn't do, all the time, because it gets them through that particular moment.