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starting to flesh out an outline for the "How We Build" book
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Another topic #1

Open getify opened 5 years ago

getify commented 5 years ago

Another topic I would like to write a chapter on: https://twitter.com/getify/status/1163829839410974722

I imagine a lot of devs are primarily asked to build things that are mostly relatively straightforward adaptations/combinations of existing things. This must be a delight!

I almost never do that.

What I build is usually custom and the first time it's ever been done. Which is also a delight of a different sort! I find it incredibly rewarding -- through all the challenge and struggle.

Pretty sure that if you spend most of your time in the first camp, it's hard to understand/appreciate work from the second. And definitely vice versa.

I wish I was better at empathizing with the first camp. But I'm just so conditioned against that way of approaching work.

What I keep pondering is, how could we increase lines of communication, respect, and empathy between these two very different camps?

bcoe commented 5 years ago

What sorts of work do you think direct you towards one of these two categories? In open-source I find that my work is sometimes monotonously routine, a lot of the interesting innovation happens early on in an open-source project, followed by long-term maintenance.