Over a quarter century ago I read, as a child, the children's book The Phantom Tollbooth. My favorite character: Terrible Trivium, a faceless demon of professional guise who tortures his victims with repetitive inane chores which are both mundane and Sisyphean.
As an adult I've come to realize that this demon really exists! It's not just some nonsense in a kid's book!
If you spend all day doing patchwork to maintain bad code patterns, maybe it's time to see the forest and not the trees. It's probably time to think of a solution or get out.
a Terrible Trivium quote: "If you only do the easy and useless jobs, you'll never have to worry about the important ones which are so difficult. You just won't have the time. For there's always something to do to keep you from what you really should be doing..."
No comments:
Post a Comment