{"id":102,"date":"2016-01-27T12:18:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T20:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/?p=102"},"modified":"2016-01-27T12:18:02","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T20:18:02","slug":"why-i-strive-to-be-a-0-1x-engineer-benjis-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/27\/why-i-strive-to-be-a-0-1x-engineer-benjis-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Strive to be a 0.1x Engineer | Benji&#8217;s Blog &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The times I feel I\u2019ve made most difference to our team\u2019s effectiveness is when I find ways to not build things.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Let\u2019s not build that feature.<\/strong> <em>Is there existing software that could be used instead?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Let\u2019s not add this functionality.<\/strong> <em>Does the complexity it will introduce really justify its existence?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Let\u2019s not build that product yet.<\/strong> <em>Can we first do some small things to test the assumption that it will be valuable?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Let\u2019s not build\/deploy that development tool.<\/strong> <em>Can we adjust our process or practices instead to make it unnecessary?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Let\u2019s not adopt this new technology.<\/strong> <em>Can we achieve the same thing with a technology that the team is already using and familiar with?<\/em>\u201cThe best tool for the job\u201d is a very dangerous phrase.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Let\u2019s not keep maintaining this feature.<\/strong> <em>What is blocking us from deleting this code?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Let\u2019s not automate this.<\/strong> <em>Can we find a way to not need to do it all?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/benjiweber.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/01\/25\/why-i-strive-to-be-a-0-1x-engineer\/\">Why I Strive to be a 0.1x Engineer | Benji&#8217;s Blog &#8211;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The times I feel I\u2019ve made most difference to our team\u2019s effectiveness is when I find ways to not build things. Let\u2019s not build that feature. Is there existing software that could be used instead? Let\u2019s not add this functionality. Does the complexity it will introduce really justify its existence? Let\u2019s not build that product [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-careers","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}