The beauty of finished software
updated 10mo ago
The beauty of finished software
The general idea that quality tools can increase the quality of your work is not unique to my early academic career. Novelists find a burst of energy when they switch from a generic word processor to professional writing software like Scrivener,
from Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport
- Anyone who’s spent a few months at a sizable tech company can tell you that a lot of software seems to exist primarily because companies have hired people to write and maintain them. In some ways, the software serves not the business, but the people who have written it, and then those who need to maintain it. This is stupid, but also very, very tru... See more
from Software will eat software in a remote-first world by Can Duruk
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