On 4/19/21 11:16 AM, Leif Johansson wrote:
That way, they can learn to snarl like the rest of us :)
Keith
Or we assign tasks to old-timers so they can learn not to.
In other words, they can spend all of their time politely explaining in
detail why proposals are Bad Ideas, instead of getting useful work done.
Old-timers snarl, at least in part, because they've been through all of
it before, and they would rather work on trying to improve potentially
promising ideas than defeating Bad Ideas. Snarling is one version of
conservation of effort.
Like I said, we could probably improve on how we do it. But
fundamentally, being able to reject Bad Ideas without spending a lot of
effort doing so is a necessary skill.
Keith
