they're clichés because they're true

[jesse_the_k]

haste does indeed make waste

Since I retired on disability in 1993, I've been flailing. I've been trying to do things as quickly as possible so as to use my limited time "productively."

Swimming rewarded me for attending closely to the stretch, the pull, the roll, the glide. Meditation has taught me what "being in the moment" feels like.

Every morning I pour hot water between glasses to cool it to 165°F for the best green tea brew. As I was cleaning up my most recent spill, I realized that the internal scold faster! only ramps up my anxiety. And thus I make more mistakes.

I can spend 10 minutes making tea and sink into the sound of the water sloshing, its weight as it passes, the smell and taste of the tea.

And that's fully ok.

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

Kittens are the best (including Punk, of course).

The AGILE management nonsense -- move fast, break things -- seems antithetical to effective programming. Is your work public-facing?

[esteefee]

we are an agile company. I have to say development is kind of crap since we switched over.

yes about our software. I work for Broadcom but it's enterprise software (Symantec Endpoint Protection or SEP) so large companies purchase it (such as government agencies or yahoo or whatever).

[jesse_the_k]

A massively off-line pal is the lone remaining COBOL programmer for a private utility. The company is trying to replace the big iron with SAAS, and interfacing with the agile folks is headache inducing. "Oh well, we can think about fixing that in a couple of months." It's scary.

Yes the era when big iron was protected by the votaries (with pocket protectors ofc) was rigid to the extreme. But the program worked.

/shakes head back and forth, knocks back another cup of tea/

[esteefee]

yeah, release it broken, fix it later is another agile trick not mentioned in the guidelines.