Processes not tools

Posted by J J Weimer
Sep 25, 2018 at 01:12 PM

Respectfully, I think some of the depth of your message may get lost in the abruptness of your opening statements. Let me see if I can dig deeper.

1. When I am truly focused on the process, I do not care about the _source_ of the tool, I care about whether it is suitable to do the job. You seem to accept a platform agnostic approach yet also seem to fuss loudly against single-developer software. What I think that you are saying is that you avoid software that has a locked-in or dead-end approach in its design. I agree with this philosophy.

2. Well. As an abrupt counter ... I guess that means we should drop our use of paper and pencil or clay tablet and stylus or cave wall and chalk. But then you turn around and praise tools that you _do_ use. What I think you are saying is that you avoid using tools for their own sake. I agree with this philosophy.

3. You are saying “Internet” to mean only blogs, forums, and podcasts. The internet has a wealth of other resources that are worthy of solid praise.

4. You embrace it, but then you define caveats to your “embrace”. This sounds more like a “I date anyone and everyone ... but they must have blue eyes” kind of statement. What I think that you are saying is that you use the cloud to the best of its potential in your work. I agree with this philosophy.

5. We all can stand a reminder to continue our good habits for life-long learning.