Michael MacTaggert is a software developer looking for work, host of a law review podcast called Amicus Lectio, and a moderator of Programming Discussions (invite.progdisc.club). Follow me on Twitter!
A meta P.S. because I didn't write this for DEV specifically.:
I can foresee an argument that this is borderline out of the "Productivity" tag's scope (mainly because the tag is popular), so I want to say it is firmly within it. Copying can be a creative pursuit and I argue that it is wrong to suppress it if our goal is to make people creative. However, copying can also be about productivity and efficiency and it is wrong to suppress it if our goals are productivity and efficiency. (That is, without good reason.) In addition to ways of optimizing our personal productivity by learning a new tool or doing some trick, it is important to interrogate our assumptions about how we work that have been baked into us by people more powerful than us with interests which are irrelevant to us. This article is an attempt at doing that. Go forth and multiply!
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A meta P.S. because I didn't write this for DEV specifically.:
I can foresee an argument that this is borderline out of the "Productivity" tag's scope (mainly because the tag is popular), so I want to say it is firmly within it. Copying can be a creative pursuit and I argue that it is wrong to suppress it if our goal is to make people creative. However, copying can also be about productivity and efficiency and it is wrong to suppress it if our goals are productivity and efficiency. (That is, without good reason.) In addition to ways of optimizing our personal productivity by learning a new tool or doing some trick, it is important to interrogate our assumptions about how we work that have been baked into us by people more powerful than us with interests which are irrelevant to us. This article is an attempt at doing that. Go forth and multiply!