Jeff Perrin - Sexier Than You Are

@Joe,

It is clear that you have not read Jeff's disclaimer.

And I quote  'The value of anything written on his blog should be deemed suspect at the minimum, and blatantly false and misleading in the worst case.'

But what about the code you always look back a year later and say, "WTF? I wrote this crap?"

...because if you don't write code as if you care what others think about what you’ve written, then they will incur unnecessary waste deciphering your code, and you will find your name on the candidates list for dismissal from the team for having arbitrarily-suboptimized the project.

Chris,

Seeing last year's code from this year's eyes is inevitable.  I look at code I just wrote and accept that it needs improvement, and then I look for ways to improve it.

It's a conscious effort in beginner mind - learning to invoke fresh eyes so that I can see through them.  If I'm not doing this all the time, I write harder code, and I reduce my capacity, and the capacity of my team mates and my project.

We reduce the impact of next year's perspective on last year's code by making conscious efforts toward perfection in the present - which is the only point in time that we can actually make a difference in regards to code quality and solubility.

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