jeremyw
Joined 18 years ago
Joined 18 years ago
> In literal, physical terms, a pound of courage would—by definition—tip the scales at one avoirdupois pound (≈ 454 g). A modern UK £1 coin, on the other hand, weighs only 8.75 g. So if you could bottle bravery, the jar marked “1 lb Courage” would outweigh the coin by a factor of about 52 to 1.
> (Of course, measured in sheer impact, courage can feel far heavier than anything money can buy!)
https://chatgpt.com/share/68057dbc-2ff4-8010-ac30-b404135200...
Though commit messages are ephemeral and hard to utilize in the future, they're the stream of consciousness of the project.
They convey very important shifts in direction, discoveries in the making, code smells, limits of current architecture, and markers of tech debt. We don't know what this beast will be. And we figure it out commit by commit. Document it.
Google Fiber, on the other hand, has been clean and clear.
You've made a number of comments in this vein. Do you see it as apart from the cycle of the successful? Wherein we slowly relax the effort is took to make success. And then deny these efforts altogether, and create fantasies of what _really_ brought success.
More explanation here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10984974/why-do-people-s...
jeremy {dot} wohl at the gmail
Conversations welcome.