{"id":752,"date":"2013-10-11T15:24:54","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T19:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=752"},"modified":"2013-10-11T15:24:54","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T19:24:54","slug":"self-referrential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2013\/10\/11\/self-referrential\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-referrential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really don&#8217;t like rehashing the stuff I&#8217;ve written before. \u00a0(Some people revel in it; \u00a0I&#8217;m not one of those people.)<\/p>\n<p>That said, the last few weeks really reinforce what I wrote in #2 <a title=\"Some guy\" href=\"http:\/\/control-h.org\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=740\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not your behavior is ethical (since morality doesn&#8217;t matter to people in modern business&#8230;.) doesn&#8217;t matter much if ultimately what you&#8217;re delivering is\u00a0<strong>shoddy work<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>What the stick-to-the-schedule people need to understand is that sometimes things do need significant rework to approach adequacy.<\/p>\n<p>There is no shame in starting from scratch when what you&#8217;ve put together really sucks. \u00a0Yes, it takes time. \u00a0Yes, this might blow a schedule written by someone with no familiarly with what the tasks actually entail.<\/p>\n<p>If that makes me a problem, so be it. \u00a0I value my time too much to spend it producing nothing but bad, wrong, work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really don&#8217;t like rehashing the stuff I&#8217;ve written before. \u00a0(Some people revel in it; \u00a0I&#8217;m not one of those people.) That said, the last few weeks really reinforce what I wrote in #2 here. Whether or not your behavior is ethical (since morality doesn&#8217;t matter to people in modern business&#8230;.) doesn&#8217;t matter much if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}