--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote: > > So tomorrow is the final release candidate build for > the product I've been working on. And it's been a bit > of a nightmare release, in which the developers > basically reinvented the entire infrastructure and > philosophy of the product. Because hubris runs high > (and somewhat deservedly) among this particular set > of developers, they always overestimate what they > can squeeze into the release and underestimate how > long it will take them to do so. This means that > Documentation bites the big one. > > I won't go into the particulars, but suffice it to > say that I've worked 191 hours over the last two weeks. > Not hardly yer average French 35-hour workweek. > > But I finished. Praise the Lord and pass the Lagavulin. > > I have never missed a software deadline. Not once, in > almost 30 years in the business. I just do DO missing > deadlines, or causing them to slip. > > Writing documentation is a service profession, like > waiting tables or fixing other people's cars. Only > trouble is, writing doc has been likened to "Trying > to fix a tire on a moving car." The software keeps > changing, as you're trying to write the definitive > guide to what it is, what it looks like, and how > to use it. It would drive a lesser man crazy. > > No comments here, please. :-) > > And the funny thing is, it was a heckuva ride, and > a heckuva lot of fun. I really GET OFF on doing a > good job. > > Whatever you may think of him or say of him, I owe > a lot of this 'tude about work to Rama, Dr. Frederick > Lenz. Dude taught me that hard work was the next best > thing to samadhi. And that if you do your work well > enough, it can actually lead to samadhi. Your work > becomes, in essence, your Way.
Peter North did a lot of long, hard work also. > > Some people make a distinction between their "work > lives" and their "spiritual lives." They have what > they call Day Jobs. I have a Way Job. >
