I celebrate every new cohort reinventing the wheel. Learn by doing.
The first 95% is generally easy. It's that last 5% that kicks your butt. Addressing all those pesky edge cases. And after snuffing all the bugs, realizing that perhaps one's predecessors weren't morons after all. (Insert Mark Twain quote here.)
And every blue moon, someone comes along with a novel way of framing a problem, elevating the state of the art to the next plateau.
The only bit that truly bothers me are the fads, groupthink. As though us graybeards were never obnoxious know-it-alls ourselves, back in the day.
I celebrate every new cohort reinventing the wheel. Learn by doing.
The first 95% is generally easy. It's that last 5% that kicks your butt. Addressing all those pesky edge cases. And after snuffing all the bugs, realizing that perhaps one's predecessors weren't morons after all. (Insert Mark Twain quote here.)
And every blue moon, someone comes along with a novel way of framing a problem, elevating the state of the art to the next plateau.
The only bit that truly bothers me are the fads, groupthink. As though us graybeards were never obnoxious know-it-alls ourselves, back in the day.