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Discussion on: How does being a programmer affects your world view?

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John Peters

We as programmers tend to be highly pragmatic due to our daily grind. Do it for 30 years and logic becomes black or white. This means we have to work hard to handle the gray stuff. Interpersonal relationships have lots of gray, we simply have to be more patient in that arena. Lastly we have to guard against arrogance because there's plenty of things we fail to do.

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Vitor Paladini

I agree with what you said but I believe that there is more nuance there. I see a lot of gray area on my daily grind, how to craft a proper abstraction is a major example of it, or how to change the implementation of a feature to better match a new use case.

Lastly we have to guard against arrogance because there's plenty of things we fail to do.

Loved this sentence, I agree that no matter who you are and how many years of experience you have you should always stay humble and remember that you're good in one thing and that doesn't make you a genius.