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Interview: Apple’s Gigantic New Data Center Hints at Cloud Computing | Cult of Mac
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Bre Pettis | I Make Things - Bre Pettis Blog - The Cult of Done Manifesto
Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
The "Cult of Done" can kiss my ass (and mark it off their list once they have)
Cultists are stupid.
Bre Pettis | I Make Things - Bre Pettis Blog - The Cult of Done Manifesto
- There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
- Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
- There is no editing stage.
- Pretending you know what you're doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you're doing even if you don't and do it.
- Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
- The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
- Once you're done you can throw it away.
- Laugh at perfection. It's boring and keeps you from being done.
- People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
- Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
- Destruction is a variant of done.
- If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
- Done is the engine of more.
nice ideas
Cargo Cult Agile | exotribe
After all, a cargo cult shop is imitating what they have seen about agile. However, like waterfall proponents, cargo cult agile shops are led by people who have looked at pictures of agile models, "read" agile books, or "learned" agile development from PowerPoint presentations. Perhaps there are a number of developers who know agile, but they may not be able to move the company towards agility in the face of generations of managers and developers who have been indoctrinated by DoD-2167.
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James Shore: The Decline and Fall of Agile
Or maybe we need to stop selling Agile. Maybe we need to say, "Agile is hard, and you can't master it by sitting through a two-day course." Maybe we need to be firm and say, "Sorry, if you don't use agile engineering practices, if you don't have high-bandwidth communication, and if you don't include a strong customer voice, you're not going to succeed. Try something else instead." Scrum is popular because it's easy--and that's part of the problem.
Is that linked to the cargo cult thingy?
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2008
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2007
plope - What Not To Do When Writing Python Software
Cargo-cult code. Nobody is perfect. Stop for a second and make sure you're not aping something that's even worse than what you might come up with if you started from scratch.
Need to show that to some people I know.
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