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