“Alas!” said Hiya, “the sentiments which this person expressed with irreproachable honourableness when the sun was high in the heavens and the probability of secretly leaving an undoubtedly well-appointed home was engagingly remote, seem to have an entirely different significance when recalled by night in a damp orchard, and on the eve of their fulfilment.”
March 16, 2006
Development, via 37signals
Fly on the wall (week of March 16) - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)
Sam found this approach “very useful in arriving at a solution”:
- write down the problem
- write down why it's hard to solve
- write down what would make it easier
- write down possible ways to implement things that would make it easier
- write down why those ways suck
- then make it not suck
Ryan's response: “yeah. in early Christopher Alexander-speak, that process pulls the forces apart so you can see the dependencies…you can evaluate all the forces that push on the problem and solution.”
Posted by ronlusk at March 16, 2006 05:19 PM