how to be a better developer: lessons learned from non-programmers

my two pieces of advice

@abhinav

advice # 1

what is the most important thing in your day-to-day

life?        

your cell-phone?

Internet?

how about food?

#1a understand and appreciate the importance of other professions and

professionals 

#1b and possibly learn from them

have you seen carpenter at work?

Intel faces billion dollar chip recall

action sequences in golmaal

compare with agile development

http://www.slideshare.net/bokardo/metricsdriven-design-4317168

advice # 2

"So many centuries after the creation, it is unlikely

that anyone could find hitherto unknown lands of

any value"Report of the committee organized in 1486 by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain to study

Columbus' plans to find a shorter route to India. 

"...any one who expects a source of power from the transformation of these

atoms is talking moonshine.."

- Ernest Rutherford (father of nuclear physics and nobel prize winner) 

search is a solved problem

hackers are like painters- Paul Graham

why? why not?

#2 read and listen to what other 'experts' are saying - but don't marinate yourself in the conventional wisdom

without thinking 

and this brings me down to advice # 3

“he who should inspire and lead his race must be

defended from travelling with the souls of other

men, from living, breathing, reading, and

writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their

opinions"- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Culture," The

Conduct of Life (1860).

http://www.theamericanscholar.org/solitude-and-leadership/

or in other words

facebook & twitter are injurious to your health.