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While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of those actions.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey
If you loan someone $20 and you never see them again because they are avoiding paying you back, that makes it worth $20.
The Technium: What Books Will Become
kk.org
Words are too abstract
On the other end of the spectrum, projects that are too vague don’t work either. When a project is defined in a few words, nobody knows what it means. “Build a calendar view” or “add group notifications” sound sensible, but what exactly do they entail? Team members don’t have enough information to make trade-offs. They don’t know what to include or leave out. A programmer who worked in that situation said:
You’re solving a problem with no context. You have to be a mind reader. It’s like: “we’ll know it when we see it.”
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