I’ve noticed a pattern when I write new programming code: I often spend far too much time polishing it up before putting it out into the world.<\/p>\n
At some point the changes I make are not really making the code any better. Yet I’ll keep on tweaking things for a good day or two, well after the law of diminishing returns has set in.<\/p>\n
I suspect this has less to do with perfectionism than with anxiety. When you put something out into the world, you are ceding control over it.<\/p>\n
Sure, you are being neighborly — sharing with the world, helping others, laying a path for what may come next. But you are also being vulnerable, because at that point any errors in what you’ve created become public.<\/p>\n
At some point pride of workmanship veers over into a neurotic tendency. I wonder how many other computer programmers suffer from the same neurosis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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