Hello there and welcome back to Not So Random Software! This week I am thinking about tools and how they can deeply influence the way we think about problems in our daily life. Often a tool is all it takes to change something from impossible to straightforward; it completely changes the value equation. On the other hand, finding the right tool for the job is often surprisingly hard. As humans, we are full of biases and we have the tendency to either overcomplicate things or oversimplify them. In the quest for the right tool, we lose sight of what good enough looks like and what was the initial problem the tool was trying to tackle. I do not have any silver bullet for you I am afraid, but one principle worked for me so far; if you are having fun and you are learning along the way, it is not going to be time wasted, and irrespectively of the outcome you will walk away with happy memories of the experience.
Not So Random Software #26 - Searching Tools
Not So Random Software #26 - Searching Tools
Not So Random Software #26 - Searching Tools
Hello there and welcome back to Not So Random Software! This week I am thinking about tools and how they can deeply influence the way we think about problems in our daily life. Often a tool is all it takes to change something from impossible to straightforward; it completely changes the value equation. On the other hand, finding the right tool for the job is often surprisingly hard. As humans, we are full of biases and we have the tendency to either overcomplicate things or oversimplify them. In the quest for the right tool, we lose sight of what good enough looks like and what was the initial problem the tool was trying to tackle. I do not have any silver bullet for you I am afraid, but one principle worked for me so far; if you are having fun and you are learning along the way, it is not going to be time wasted, and irrespectively of the outcome you will walk away with happy memories of the experience.