We’ve evolved over time, and if we are unlucky enough, we have developed an OCD towards achieving perfection in our code. Refactor after refactor after refactor your code becomes more and more beautiful to your eyes and more and more obscure to the other members of the team.
…d reject food stamps because of a lack of dignity is a rather graphic demonstration of it. In this, I increasingly believe that Maslow missed something very important: that even below physical survival, there is a deeper need for social acceptance, and it manifests in all of the ways that people would rather die than live.)