Good stuff, very to-the-point. For the curious, I just wrote (https://tylerberbert.substack.com/p/breaks) about why rotating task types can have the added benefit of generating helpful ideas and insights about prior tasks.
> No program exists in a vacuum. There is always some environment, some organisation, some process that it lives in or serves, and taken out of said context, it is entirely useless.
> Failing to recognise this is the number one leading cause of new users and junior devs being unable to do 'this simple task' (don't quote me on this, I have no data).
This. At all three startups I've worked at, founding/senior devs err on the side of assuming that any process not involving writing code is trivial and self-explanatory when in fact those things are some of the biggest time-eaters. Big organizational wins can be had by documenting them well.
Decomposing projects before you even start coding is everything.
The bigger the project, the more likely it is that some small thing - something in the original spec, maybe, or more likely, an unforeseen interaction of its pieces - will be missed and will take an inordinate amount of time to deal with. All it takes is one of these to thwart the entire estimate.
Self-proclaimed hackers: Our trades rely on rationality and facts
Also self-proclaimed hackers: Let's all upvote this purely correlational study riddled with conflicts of interest because it makes us feel better about ourselves
Ebola and H1N1 were both epidemics. The former wasn't a pandemic and the latter didn't kill that many people in hindsight, but they were most definitely epidemic in large communities.
With the disclaimer that I'm not an expert: Also, ebola didn't just fizzle out of its own accord, its spread was halted by a concerted, and brave, effort. Medics died fighting that epidemic. I suspect it could have been orders of magnitude more lethal had it been handled less effectively.
> Not all of our vulnerability is the fault of medicine preserving life so successfully. Other human actions have opened more doors between the fungal world and our own. We clear land for crops and settlement and perturb what were stable balances between fungi and their hosts. We carry goods and animals across the world, and fungi hitchhike on them. We drench crops in fungicides and enhance the resistance of organisms residing nearby. We take actions that warm the climate, and fungi adapt, narrowing the gap between their preferred temperature and ours that protected us for so long.
