Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2023 16:47:37 -0700
On Monday, 25 September 2023 16:27:04 PDT Breno Guimarães wrote:
> And more often than not, the wildest proposals have the most amount of
> engagement because they are easier to shoot down.
That's the principle of the bikeshed.
If you post the plans for a bike shed, everyone will have an opinion. If you
post the plans for a nuclear power plant, people will leave it alone thinking
others smarter and more informed than they will provide the necessary
feedback.
> And more often than not, the wildest proposals have the most amount of
> engagement because they are easier to shoot down.
That's the principle of the bikeshed.
If you post the plans for a bike shed, everyone will have an opinion. If you
post the plans for a nuclear power plant, people will leave it alone thinking
others smarter and more informed than they will provide the necessary
feedback.
-- Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org Software Architect - Intel DCAI Cloud Engineering
Received on 2023-09-25 23:47:39