Comments on: Technical Controversy and the Unknown

By: Max Kanat-Alexander

Max Kanat-Alexander — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:51:24 +0000

Wow, that’s amazing about the M1. And yeah, I’ve heard many, many good things about the Data Series, particularly in relation to programming.

And yeah, I totally understand what you mean about MUs and the right Whys.

-Max

By: Valon Cross

Valon Cross — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:55:48 +0000

I very much agree that consistency is very important (after workability). As a programmer (for 27 years) the most important technical actions I did were Student Hat, M1 Word Clearing, and the Elementary Data Series Evaluator’s Course.

When I finished M1, computer manuals “glowed” and I could read and duplicate.

When I finished the Data Series course, my thinking dramatically improved. I could normally spot the Why much faster.

Both less MUs and the right Whys cut through much discussion and avoided controversy. This lead to personal certainty and helped me as a technical lead.

By: Max Kanat-Alexander

Max Kanat-Alexander — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:11:37 +0000

That is so true.

-Max

By: Grahame

Grahame — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:54:08 +0000

You make a very good point.

I also find that when the individual doesn’t fully understand an area then he or she get into “controversy,” arguments and endless discussion. It’s like the arguments people have about coding standards: “The opening curly brace must go on the next line” versus “No way, it should go on the same line.” They don’t understand that consistency is the important thing, they’ve never had to maintain code that was written by several programmers all following different coding, naming and formatting standards - nightmare!

Understanding tends to blow away the arguments, fixed opinions and “controversy”.

By: Eric R

Eric R — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:17:28 +0000

Fantastic Max!