Why Do Developers Always Need To Be Busy?

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Ben "The Hosk" Hosking
3 min readJun 28, 2024
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“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone,” wrote the French philosopher Blaise Pascal

Many Developers problems stem from their inability to sit in a meeting without talking or volunteering to do something or leaping into code to solve a problem.

“We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.” — Roman satirist Petronius Arbiter

I watched my ginger cat Willie go into the garden and sat there in the middle of the grass.

Hosk cats on guard

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Ben "The Hosk" Hosking
Ben "The Hosk" Hosking

Written by Ben "The Hosk" Hosking

Technology philosopher | Software dev → Solution architect | Avid reader | Life long learner

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