Re:James Webb telescope's coldest instrument reaches operati...
by groby_b on Monday April 18, 2022 @07:29PM
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When people call teamwork "design by committee", it's time to move on - you know you've accumulated a prima donna or three when that happens.
Ideas on large projects are almost always collaborative. There's never just one spark of insight - you've talked about the problem for a long time, and the whole team slowly chipped away at "but we can't do that because X, Y, Z".
The idea of a single genius motivating it belies pretty much every large project in existence. (Based on personal experience, the threshold where it's not just a single person having the crucial breakthroughs seems to be at projects requiring teams of ~20+ persons)
You solve problems via "Yes, and", not via "behold the genius".
Re:James Webb telescope's coldest instrument reaches operati...
by guelo on Monday April 18, 2022 @07:59PM
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It's not about prima donnas, it's a political ideology. A close-minded ideology about the heroicness of individuals and the degeneracy of any collective.
Ideas on large projects are almost always collaborative. There's never just one spark of insight - you've talked about the problem for a long time, and the whole team slowly chipped away at "but we can't do that because X, Y, Z".
The idea of a single genius motivating it belies pretty much every large project in existence. (Based on personal experience, the threshold where it's not just a single person having the crucial breakthroughs seems to be at projects requiring teams of ~20+ persons)
You solve problems via "Yes, and", not via "behold the genius".