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Thu, 25 Sep 2003

But I already said that!!!

I'm finding that a lot of the ideas that I'm expressing at work are being dismissed only to come up later in the mouths of other people. I think part of the problem I have is that I'm so concerned about learning as much as I can from the people around me, that I've implicitly come to put greater value on the opinions of my peers than on my own opinions. Consequently, I'm finding myself backing down way too quickly when I should be sticking to my guns.

I've had plenty of hard knocks in life that have taught me the dangers of being over-confident in myself. I believe it might be the case that I am over-compensating. Or perhaps self-confidence is something which should be variable depending on who you are dealing with.

I'm also coming to a revelation about programming methodologies. They don't work. The struggle for the ultimate, most efficient programming methodology is ultimately fruitless. There are far too many variables and not nearly enough constants. Once you lock yourself into one way of programming, you have doomed yourself into a downward spiral of bad programming. Things that effect this:

What is my conclusion? There is no black and white, even something that might otherwise be thought to be as cut and dry as programming. People leak into everything, and they bring those people things with them. The only truth is that if you thump your chest too hard and claim to be correct, you will ultimately prove to be wrong.

Oh.. and if you don't get this, it doesn't necessarily mean I'm wrong, it just might mean that you don't get it.
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