Legibility is Ruining You

Jimmy Miller Legibility is Ruining You I am incredibly grateful that Sean Goedecke published his beautifully written article Seeing like a Software Company. In it, you will find a wonderfully balanced presentation of why companies often choose legible practices over more efficient, illegible ones. Sean very clearly details the kind of (in my words) doublethink that goes on at companies involving these very needed, but often hated, illegible processes. If you are hoping for that sort of balanced, nuanced take, please read his article instead. Sean has freed me from the burden of needing to write that way myself. The Values You Truly Hold Deep down on reflection, you don't care about OKRs, you don't care about code review, you don't care about coding standards, you don't care about lint rules, you don't care about style guides, you don't care about deadlines, you don't care about job titles, you don't care about standup, you don't care about code coverage, you don't care about any of…