[HN Gopher] John Carmack talks about "antifragile" idea generati... ___________________________________________________________________ John Carmack talks about "antifragile" idea generation (2015) [video] Author : deepaksurti Score : 110 points Date : 2020-02-27 16:16 UTC (6 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.youtube.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.youtube.com) | 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-02-27 23:00 UTC)