JF quoted:
* everybody prefers their own work, products or creations over anyone else's.
When mentoring undergrad computer programmer/systems/etc students I learned over time that the best way to introduce them to new data structures and algorithms
/ was to assign them to *use* a library or other source which implemented/used such,
/ but then give them enough room/time to do what they inevitably did anyway which was to attempt to (re)implement such themselves.
/ Rarely would the do anything novel or even very interesting, but they *would* become intimately familiar with the issues I wanted them to learn
/ and almost inevitably they would put aside their own idiosyncratic implementations in deference to my original promoted library/source or one very similar (occasionally yet more apt).
When I realized that this was a fairly standard mode of "taking ownership" of the issues I wanted them to learn. At first It felt inefficient to me, but reflected the fact that they really did need to learn the implied issues hidden in the underlying implementation/idiom before proceeding to try to operate with it's affordances.
In my own homesteadery, I much prefer crafting or repairing myself over purchasing/outsourcing-service, even when I ultimately end up purchasing/hiring anyway. not (just) because I often do a half-ass job, but also because I much more better understand what object or function I really wanted/needed by bumbling around with my own 3/4 assed solutions before settling on a solution. A bungled "how" often helps to illuminate the "what" and sometimes even the "why" and occasionaly a solid "who cares? just drop it!"
Just my take on why *I* might prefer my own productions over that of others... including awareness that mine are not "*better* but that the domain of consideration is simultaneously product, process and orientation. which should evolve...
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