{"id":3829,"date":"2023-02-20T01:03:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T06:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3829"},"modified":"2023-02-10T13:18:35","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T18:18:35","slug":"first-comes-love-then-comes-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2023\/02\/first-comes-love-then-comes-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"First Comes Love, Then Comes Marriage, &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Events occur in a set order, unless they don&#8217;t. Thought is encouraged.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The title is from a nursery rhyme (origin unknown by me). The third event is a baby in a baby carriage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Events occur in a set order. Breakfast-lunch-dinner. Entree then desert. Eat breakfast, then brush your teeth (or is that one backwards?).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The troublesome reality is that events usually don&#8217;t come the the order prescribed by some folks. In building systems, we have:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Requirements<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Design<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Build<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Test<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Deploy<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wouldn&#8217;t that be nice? Well, actually, we can do things in this order and have a nice solution. Then again, we can have a better solution if&#8230; Now comes the thinking. Let&#8217;s do steps 1. through 5., pause, think, and do steps 1. through 5., several more times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course we do step 1., start step 2., go back to 1., try a little of step 3., go back to 2., and so on. Work a little, learn a little, work a little, learn a little, or is the &#8220;learn a little&#8221; just a natural part of working?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In my experience, I find that things go better in one way or another if I plan for learning. Of course, I don&#8217;t want to learn too much or I will never reach some end. Then again, is learning the end?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The more I think about this, the more I want to stop and take a nap. There we go:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Think<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nap<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Work<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Think<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Eat<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nap <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Work<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Did I get that order right? Let me think about that one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Events occur in a set order, unless they don&#8217;t. Thought is encouraged. The title is from a nursery rhyme (origin unknown by me). The third event is a baby in a baby carriage. Events occur in a set order. Breakfast-lunch-dinner. Entree then desert. Eat breakfast, then brush your teeth (or is that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,20,289,58,235,50,67],"tags":[135,142,291,178,236,172,187],"class_list":["post-3829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-learning","category-rest","category-systems","category-testing","category-thinking","category-work","tag-design","tag-learning","tag-rest","tag-systems","tag-testing","tag-thinking","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829","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=3829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3830,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829\/revisions\/3830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}