On Sunday, January 2, 2005, at 1:32:48 PM, William Wake wrote:
>> The other consideration is that in many cases decisions still need to
>> be made--the question is, who shall make them? In market societies the
>> ideal is that the person most affected by a decision is the one who
>> makes it and is responsible for the outcome.
> That's the problem too, isn't it? Each supplier wants you to make one
> more decision. This creates an explosion of choices. And like most
> everybody else, I'm out there trying to create more choices for people
> too.
I guess this is a deep question. Yet, to me, it's not. I don't like
not having choices. I don't like people telling me what I can have
and can't have, what I must do and what I may not do.
Now that may seem odd, coming from a guy whose whole position on XP
is "Do this, and someday you'll understand why." But it's actually
quite consistent.
I don't want anyone forced to do the practices of XP, or anything
else. I want them to /choose/ to do the practices, to /choose/ to
learn whatever they teach.
When I go to taiji class, I don't expect to tell the instructor how
to teach me. If he teaches me in a way that I don't like, I'll get
another instructor. And I'll even tell him "when you did this, this
happened to me, but when you did that ...". But when it comes down
to it, in this class that I chose, he's the master ... not in the
sense of I'm the slave, but in the sense of I'm the student. His job
is to tell me what to do next, choosing in such a way as to cause me
to learn something.
I choose to learn, by trying things. I then learn to choose among a
wider range of choices and, among them, to choose better.
I choose choice.
Ron Jeffries
www.XProgramming.com
It is better to have less thunder in the mouth
and more lightning in the hand. -- Apache proverb
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