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#U r doing it wrong series#
Kaz's own 30-year history of interest and experience in advice - from her newspaper etiquette column to best-selling books, including Up the Duff and the Girl Stuff series - and years of archives and research have culminated in a full-colour, exuberant shout of a book with hundreds of wacky and sobering historical photos of objects and instructions.
#U r doing it wrong free#
It's also a roar against injustice, a rallying cry for sisterhood and a way to free ourselves from ludicrous expectations and imposed perfectionism. Come with Kaz on a laugh-out-loud frolic through centuries of terrible advice, from 14th-century clergy to the Kardashians (wear a dress made of arsenic, do some day-drinking, have sex with a billionaire biker, worry about your vagina wrinkles). You can be wrong all you want, but i don’t argue with success.You're Doing it Wrong is an outrageous tour through the centuries of bonkers and bad advice handed down and foisted upon women, told as only Kaz Cooke can - with humour and rage, intelligence and wit.
Show me how this is not just helping you, or the team, but also how it impacts the bottom line. that’s the most effective way to shut me up. What matters is if that tool or process works for you. i may be right according to my experience, but my advice still won’t work for you. You see, my advice can work for you, or not. However we measure rightness, it really doesn’t matter. It’s seems that technical practices are respected more than the procedural ones, at least as a measuring stick for rightness. the process dogma, once implanted in the inhabitants of the organization seem even more powerful than any “best practice” out there. or “you’re not supposed to use story points like that”. here we see many more of the “yes but” discussions. however, it centers around coding and design “best practices”.
In this type of right vs wrong discussion there’s obviously a bias for the more stubborn side. the discussions then are much more interesting, although the “no” eventually wins. it happens when people have enough experience (and gumption) to argue with the almighty consultant. cultural explanations rather than bad coding practices. it relates to “we don’t have time”, or “we had to build this on 10 years of legacy code”.
#U r doing it wrong code#
usually the “yes but” doesn’t relate to the code itself. when i review tests and code, and i find issues, the reaction is either “yes”, or a “yes but”. Here are examples from real life that reflect how we think about what’s right and wrong.įirst there’s the technical side. I can’t fault people for telling me “you’re doing it wrong” after i used it in that post. and the “you’re doing it wrong” type, long and argumentative.
reactions were divided to two groups: the “great post” type, short and supportive.