Two Second Memory

I’ve just finished reading ‘Getting Real‘ by the 37signals’ guys. It’s a very, very impressive book, one that everybody involved in any aspect of software development should read at least twice.

But instead of writing a review (How can I compare to the mighty Seth Godin?) I want to focus on the chapter “Beware the Bloat Monster”:

You don’t have to become an outer space pen that writes upside down. Sometimes it’s OK to just be a pencil.

“Sometimes it’s ok to just be a pencil” is such a wonderful sentence. It needn’t even apply to software engineering, it could apply to anything. We strive for so many, often unatainable, things but forget that it’s OK to just be a pencil.

I shall revel in my pencilness

Filed by rgh at 20:17 under Books
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