The teams you worked on may have sucked
Of course the past experience of our team members is invaluable. But we need to be actively researching what effective teams are doing nowadays.
Explain Like I’m 3
kids just take it in stride. They’re constantly collecting new and surprising information, processing it, and promptly moving on with their new reality. But being asked to explain each change to a 3 year old helps me feel ready to move on with each new reality.
Being Bad at Things
Instead, it was damn fun. The low expectations I had for myself let me enjoy just being terrible, and building from there.
Try the Opposite
“Our habits tend to fall into local maxima. We choose well compared to similar alternatives, but ignore options that are totally different yet possibly better. Machine learning algorithms avoid local maxima by occasionally testing random permutations, with techniques like simulated annealing.”
Working Title
A junior developer wants to rule the world.