with our kids, we have this thing where you can do anything as long as you’re prepared
play in the rain? sure, just wear rain jacket/pants/boots
there’s poison ivy in the woods? that’s fine, you know how to identify it, and we have PI soap to wash it off if you miss some
the philosophy is to redirect them into the right way, rather than banning the wrong way. it gives us a lot of freedom in how we travel and experience new things
engineering teams are kind of similar. i like processes that nudge you into the right way to do things, rather than shutting down specific behaviors
e.g. code formatters in CI, type systems, etc.
there’s also a big tie in to how you run incident reviews. focusing on what could have been done better (and making a plan to do it that way next time) vs shaming people for doing the wrong thing
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