[Sigia-l] OT: Library Thing

[Listera]

Karl Fast:

> How about this as a similarly cheeky, though inverted, alternative:
> 
>  Best Practices,
>  What people ignore when they think they're smarter than everybody else

Here's another sig I've used here with regularity:

"You must learn from the mistakes of others.
You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself."

Your formulation ("What people ignore when they think they're smarter than
everybody else") exposes the fallacy of the "best practices" rhetoric better
than most, namely that some other "smarter" people know my problems, in my
context, for my users, to be solved with my resources, better than me.

That's not only intellectually dishonest and arrogant but can easily be
exposed for what it is: an MLM scheme.

If you want to start a new thread to discuss best practices, I won't be
unwilling to participate. :-)

---- 
Ziya

Best Practices,
For when you've run out of your own ideas and context.