{"id":1794,"date":"2012-07-10T18:30:04","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T22:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/?p=1794"},"modified":"2012-07-10T13:07:03","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T17:07:03","slug":"moving-beyond-but-it-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/2012\/07\/10\/moving-beyond-but-it-works","title":{"rendered":"Moving Beyond &#8220;but it works&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Heinemeier Hansson on <a href=\"http:\/\/37signals.com\/svn\/posts\/3200-levels-of-aspiration\" target=\"_blank\">levels of aspiration<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To help someone move up the hierarchies, they have to have an intrinsic desire to do so. Arguments like \u201cbut it works\u201d or \u201cit gets the job done\u201d are tell-tale signs of someone happy at the lowest level of the technical hierarchy and your cue to just quietly back out of the debate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a concept that took me a long time to recognize and to realize that<em> this is ok<\/em>. This same concept can be applied to any area: I might throw some roast beef between a couple pieces of bread for dinner because it &#8220;gets the job done&#8221; in sating my hunger. Those who\u00a0appreciate\u00a0the finer points of the culinary arts may find this unthinkable, and try to convince me to spend greater time and effort on dinner, but a plain roast beef sandwich often works fine for me.<\/p>\n<p>A commenter, Kathy Sierra, makes a great point:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I think part of this is explained by whether they see the technology as Their Thing vs. the just a Tool&#8230;for enabling\/supporting Their Thing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t have said it better myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Heinemeier Hansson on levels of aspiration: To help someone move up the hierarchies, they have to have an intrinsic desire to do so. Arguments like \u201cbut it works\u201d or \u201cit gets the job done\u201d are tell-tale signs of someone happy at the lowest level of the technical hierarchy and your cue to just quietly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[111,75],"tags":[681,682],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p123kB-sW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1794"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1800,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions\/1800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}