DHH on Levels of Aspiration

11 July 2012

David Heinemeier Hansson, with an uncharacteristically non-inflamatory post: > To help someone move up the hierarchies, they have to have an intrinsic desire to do so. Arguments like “but it works” or “it gets the job done” are tell-tale signs of someone happy at the lowest level of the technical hierarchy and your cue to just quietly back out of the debate. The diagram of the different aspirational levels is necessarily simplistic, but seems like a useful heuristic for having productive conversations about technology choices. Or at least for keeping them short.