My thoughts that don’t fit anywhere else in my life.
People say, “You dress funny.”
People say, “You should spend more time with people.”
People say, “You should wear a suit when you teach.”
Yesterday, I talked about how we often don’t ask the right questions. And here we have perfect examples.
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So, I had this thought today while I was working on a completely unrelated problem. (Don’t worry, this is only going to touch my life as a programmer briefly.)
Most of the time, people ask the wrong questions. Because they ask the wrong question, they normally either can’t find the solution, or they find a solution, but it is the wrong solution. Asking the right question should, therefore, be the primary concern when trying to solve a problem.
Now, I see this all of the time in the work that I do as a programming coach. Some very smart people will ask me how to do some programming thing. Invariably, when I dig deeper, I find that they’ve chosen the wrong solution. (more…)
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