Steve:Most of my working career has been as a genuine consultant (and not just an unemployed programmer). I am typically hired by a major investor. My specialty is resurrecting projects that are in technological trouble. At the heart of the most troubled projects. I typically find either a born-again Christian or a PhD Chemist. These people make the same bad decisions from faith. The Christian's faith is that God wouldn't lead them SO astray, so abandoning the project would in effect be abandoning their faith in God - which of course leads straight to Hell. The Chemist has heard all of the stories of perseverance leading to breakthrough discoveries, and if you KNOW that the solution is there just waiting to be found, then just keep on plugging away. These both lead to projects that stumble on and on long after any sane person would have found another better way. Christians tend to make good programmers, but really awful project managers.
V. interesting. The thing that amazes me - & I don't know whether this relates to your experience - is that so many AGI-ers don't seem to realise that if you're going to commit to a creative project, you must have at least one big, central creative idea to start with. Especially if investors are to be involved. I find the "pathologies" of how would-be creatives fail to see this fascinating - you have possible examples above. Another obvious example is how many people think that they are being creative simply by going into a new area, even though they have no real new ideas or approaches to it. ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=106510220-47b225 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
