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Re:Why 80 Percent of Web Projects Are Total Bullshit: A Free... by tomjen3 on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @06:58AM (#3017077)
If you are right about the pattern matching, why doesn't he focus on the guy being there in the middle of the night and encourage him instead?

A pattern-matcher (and I think you are right about that) would focus on the most out of the ordinary thing, would he not?

I mean a Tiger in coming towards you. Do you notice (or care about) the bustling leaves on the bush?

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Re:Why 80 Percent of Web Projects Are Total Bullshit: A Free... by protomyth on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @11:06AM (#3017821)
> I mean a Tiger in coming towards you. Do you notice (or care about) the bustling leaves on the bush?

I think you missed the clause "in abscense of a known crisis will value the pattern over basic feelings". Not being a zoo keeper, I would think a Tiger constitutes a crisis.

I cannot help but think the manager found that there was no current crisis, someone had taken action, he must now take action, then we get the thing out of place. I would assume (yeah, that word) the normal behavior would be to send the tech home with a "great job" and a "we got it from here". Nope, let's fix the pattern.

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