Forbes’ Seventh Law
Reg Braithwaite attributes this law to Dennis Forbes:
The constructiveness of your criticism is in inverse exponential proportion to the size of the audience.
[via Stefan Tilkov]
Update: the exception that proves the rule.
It’s just data
Reg Braithwaite attributes this law to Dennis Forbes:
The constructiveness of your criticism is in inverse exponential proportion to the size of the audience.
[via Stefan Tilkov]
Update: the exception that proves the rule.
“Having said that, the development community is (at least thus far...unless the robots take over) full of humans, and humans are imperfect. Often we try to boost our own relative position by pushing down others, and we stake out domains that we defend against all logic. By nature most humans are prone to resisting change.” Dennis Forbes
Don’t worry because despite best efforts sometimes sh*t just happens anyway.
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