D as A Better C?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 2/12/14, 8:49 AM, Sean Kelly wrote:
> On Wednesday, 12 February 2014 at 16:16:10 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 2/12/14, 12:34 AM, Daniel Murphy wrote:
>>> The thing is, we do almost have it, because it's not a huge thing to
>>> implement.  Low hanging fruit vs long-term priorities.
>>
>> There's this thing in psychology - when confronted with too many
>> unprioritized tasks, people will consistently choose the easiest ones.
>
> Yep.  When overwhelmed, it's particularly welcome to be making
> quantifiable progress on something.  Anything.  And in many cases it
> really is worth interspersing the easy tasks with the hard ones just to
> keep morale up, even if those easy tasks are really not terribly
> important from a priorities perspective.  Of course, the flip-side of
> that is feature creep, when too much time is spent on the low-priority
> easy stuff.  I think every programmer needs to learn this balance at
> some point, as an aid to avoiding burnout.

There's always answering email and posting to forums :o).

Andrei