[HN Gopher] John Carmack talks about "antifragile" idea generati...
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       John Carmack talks about "antifragile" idea generation (2015)
       [video]
        
       Author : deepaksurti
       Score  : 110 points
       Date   : 2020-02-27 16:16 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | dang wrote:
       | URL changed from
       | https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1232052215684177924,
       | which points to this.
        
       | ChrisArchitect wrote:
       | In case the (2015) is misleading, this is newly released video
       | from an internal-to-facebook talk he gave in 2015. Cool
        
         | MikusR wrote:
         | It's very misleading. While it was filmed in 2015 it was
         | published in 2020.
        
       | csours wrote:
       | I don't believe in the 6 thinking hats methodology (I don't think
       | it has anything to do with psychology, but I do think it has
       | something to say about work), but I think I learned something
       | from reading about it.
       | 
       | I have a certain mentality where I will plan a feature, and then
       | I will spend literally forever poking holes in that feature and
       | thinking about all the ways it will fail. This demotivates me
       | greatly.
       | 
       | I think it is better to plan the happy path, then take a finite,
       | planned amount of time to mentally test it and note corners and
       | edges, then take a stab at iteration, then go back and re-
       | evaluate. I think this is probably how normal people do this, but
       | I also think it's easy to get stuck on one of those modes. One of
       | my architects is stuck on happy-path mode, and it's really hard
       | to get them to actually think about implementations.
       | 
       | ---
       | 
       | Notes on the 6 hats: I think the important thing is not to get
       | stuck on one hat. You may pick some of these as your focus, but I
       | think it's important to have some balance as well.
       | 
       | Hat Color - Original Theme/My theme
       | 
       | White - Data/Data Analysis
       | 
       | Yellow - Optimism/Happy Path Plan, Architectural View
       | 
       | Blue - Process/ Project Manager, Task management, Scrum
       | 
       | Black - Pessimism/Testing view, how will it go wrong
       | 
       | Green - Creative/Implementation Phase (just write some code)
       | 
       | Red - Emotion/Iteration Review, Hot wash
        
       | foxx-boxx wrote:
       | Yacks about. Previous generations burned all available fossil
       | fuels and new generations gonna pay for it.
        
       | cheschire wrote:
       | I encourage my devs with a similar mantra: treat your code like
       | cattle, not like pets.
        
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