Saturday, April 29, 2023

Never assume malice

 "Never assume malice when stupidity will suffice. Never assume stupidity when ignorance will suffice. Never assume ignorance when forgivable error will suffice. Never assume error when information you hadn't adequately accounted for will suffice." - rwallace expanding on Hanlons Razor

I asked someone if they had forgotten to push the second part to the repo, because it has been 14hrs. 1) Always check that you pushed all the parts. 2) If you have gone down that list and not checked off any of those as being the reason things are wrong, you have big problems. Praise them in public, criticize/coach them in private. And expect the same from others.

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