Post #4250068
2026-07-30 18:16 UTC
To my mind, one of the psychological pillars of good engineering of any kind is letting go of that egocentric mode, accepting (deeply, philosophically, rationally, and emotionally) that •everything• is tradeoffs, and embracing correctness and goodness as a direction, and endless process and never a destination.
Replies (3)
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@AnnaBaguenaude@tenforward.social 2026-07-30 18:19
@inthehands@hachyderm.io this is wisdom.
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@grwster@mastodon.social 2026-07-30 18:31
@inthehands@hachyderm.io Yes! It's so easy to screw this up when you are deep in the mines and lack the perspective of the bigger picture that your work fits into
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@inthehands@hachyderm.io 2026-07-30 19:57
OMG yes, this, 1000x this. Doesn’t even require an outside force; we do it to ourselves at the slightest excuse. https://mastodon.social/@Catfish_Man/117010616473398350