Subj : Re: Software Job Market Myths
To   : comp.programming,comp.software-eng
From : dj3vande
Date : Wed Jul 06 2005 04:18 pm

In article <1120636781.322983.323700@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
 <shelley@osel.netkonect.co.uk> wrote:
>
>CBFalconer wrote:

[snip]

>>        Another useful mode is "tell it to
>> the bear".

[snip]

>What's 'tell it to the bear'?

Keep a stuffed bear (or appropriate substitute - mine is a penguin)
on your desk.  When you run into problems, explain to the bear what
should be happening, why you think it should be happening that way,
and what actually is happening.

This actually works most of the time, because having to explain something
(even to an inanimate object) forces you to sort things out in more
detail than most people do when they're trying to work something out
on their own, and that sorting things out often exposes the solution to
the problem at hand.


dave

-- 
Dave Vandervies                                   dj3vande@csclub.uwaterloo.ca
The basic method that is used now, a person talking while scratching on a hard
rock with a soft rock, is thousands of years old. There's a reason it has
lasted so long.                                --Prabhakar Ragde in uw.general

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