That's just bad, imho, I would have the same response.
And thanks a lot for the kind words, much appreciated!
“This could be a blog post.”
You can't imagine how many times I thought this too, and yet here I am 10-15 years later still writing comments... Ha, it's never too late I guess.
If you wanted to set up a little blog beforehand in case people want to follow you, I can wait. whistles
As for the blog, I'd rather do it once and for all (I have a cleaner / LTS mindset), so that will require a little planning (e.g. domain and URLs, as I hate dead links with a passion). I just don't have the time now, hopefully before year's end. So don't wait on me!
And thank you so much for the interest. It may be pride but I'm very grateful. Have a great one!
Your post has me looking back at the opt-in samples of my experience and realizing that when they were opt-in, I never considered them to be "pair programming". It's always just been "healthy onboarding" or "healthy collaboration". My current org's obsession with enforcing PP for its own sake as a measured performance metric has conditioned me to squirm when I hear the term, but that's just a branding/emotional response problem. Thank you for the beautifully articulated check.