{"id":3123,"date":"2020-05-14T01:30:11","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T06:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3123"},"modified":"2020-04-25T07:37:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T12:37:56","slug":"research-or-reminders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2020\/05\/research-or-reminders\/","title":{"rendered":"Research or Reminders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sometimes research leads old guys to remember lessons from way back. Crisis helps us forget to our peril<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The other day at work, we were speaking with a thought leader in an area of technology. This person truly is an expert and a thought leader in the future of his area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The future belongs to those who:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>have modular designs (architecture is the words everyone uses today)<\/li><li>flexible in thought<\/li><li>can change<\/li><li>have portable software<\/li><li>a few more<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wait, I heard these things in the late 1970s. Have most people forgotten these things? Have most people never heard of these things?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another thought: in the recent past, we lurch from one crisis to another. A crisis causes us to put some software out there quickly. Do something that works now. We will refactor or fix it real soon now. We wake a year later and &#8220;real soon now&#8221; hasn&#8217;t arrived. We have a mess. I suppose we call that &#8220;technical debt.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Crisis gives us a reason to forget the things we know we should do. The human condition remains. Let&#8217;s try to remember what we know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Sometimes research leads old guys to remember lessons from way back. Crisis helps us forget to our peril The other day at work, we were speaking with a thought leader in an area of technology. This person truly is an expert and a thought leader in the future of his area. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,20,411,54],"tags":[171,142,345,175],"class_list":["post-3123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adapting","category-learning","category-software","category-technical-debt","tag-adapting","tag-learning","tag-software","tag-technical-debt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3124,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123\/revisions\/3124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}