On 07 Sep 2015, at 22:07, stepharo <stepharo@free.fr> wrote:
I'm not complaining. I know that there is a good chance that we break the system when improving it. I have no problem with that and I prefer a living system with some bugs for a while than a dead system with no bug :)
exactly. For me, Pharo was exactly that: Imagine instead of ânot doing anything because we could do betterâ we would just do, as trivial and wrong as it our limits allow, but then learn from the mistakes and repeat⦠and, important, this in a way that the improvement âfeeds backâ into the system to have a direct impact on the next iteration. There are multiple feedback loops: - you only learn when you do. And most when you do it wrong. When you do the next thing it will be with more understanding and knowledge. If you do nothing because what you can do might be not perfect, you will just end with nothing. - As we improve the system we use, every tiny improvement has an impact on the next improvement. The âThis is just a 2% boring improvementâ is part of an exponential growth process if it happens in such a feedback loop. - The artefact that you see is not the goal. Itâs just a stepping stone towards. It will be ugly and imperfect, it will contain parts that are even not meant to be ever âniceâ as they are just scaffolding. They are there to help us build something else. â¦.. Marcus