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On Perfectionism - Katherine Cox-Buday

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I've spent most of my career in the financial industry. There, it was unacceptable to release code which didn't work, and acceptable for the time between releases to span months; because if you got something wrong, it could have led to significant financial losses. It was a different type of job, and discussion of the pros/cons of this type of environment is probably outside the scope of this post. I've changed jobs now, but I'm still trying to shake one of the detrimental habits the financial industry trained me into: perfectionism. Now admittedly, I can't rest all of the blame on my previous job. Perfectionism is something that's innate to my character as well. Perhaps working in that type of environment just helped further crystallize a way of working. And it's not all bad. It's partially what drives me: the desire to release pristine code leads to (what I consider) some nice patches and projects. It is sometimes the driving force behind starting some changes. It can be a really pos

On Perfectionism - Katherine Cox-Buday --> On Perfectionism I recently came across this Tweet: http://t.co/meyTVhEscW pic.twitter.com/VyIujIx2dZ - Paul Baumgart (@paulbaumgart) February 28, 2015 I've spent most of my career in the financial industry. There, it was unacceptable to release code which didn't work, and acceptable for the time between releases to span months; because if you got something wrong, it could have led to significant financial losses. It was a different type of job, and discussion of the pros/cons of this type of environment is probably outside the scope of this post. I'v

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