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  • I ask my partner to text me a list. Gives me a reference, and she doesn’t have to interrupt me.

    This is also an excellent strategy at work and other places. If it’s “free” for your boss to dump work on you, they will. It will eventually devolve into meaningless work because it’s easy to just “dump it on PiJiNWiNg”.
    Ask them to put the request in an e-mail, a text, a JIRA or whatever and it will force them to evaluate if the task is really worth doing. They’ll often figure the task isn’t “worth their time” for an e-mail and just drop it. Basically you’re giving them a cost that keeps giving you tasks from being “free”.





  • Very few people have a truly diverse software experience base. Many humans without a large, diverse experience base have trouble imagining there are problems outside their own experience.
    There are millions of different problems that need software solutions. People with limited experience have opinions as to the “best” software.
    People with large, diverse experience bases tend to be a bit more circumspect and can understand there is no single best answer. The “best” software for a given task depends on many things, including the problem, the schedule, the availability of resources, etc.






  • We’re raised by parents that must be obeyed for our own safety. Some people eventually learn to accept their parents are imperfect people and not gods. Many people do not. They look to kings and gods to protect and provide for them.

    Those that have power negotiate with kings and gods. People without power attempt to use the only techniques they know to negotiate with their kings and gods: begging and/or pledging loyalty and service in exchange for scraps.

    Of course this is but one of many reasons many people worship power.