my social production

Things I am afraid of:

• Doing work that doesn’t matter
• Having projects cancelled because I didn’t make enough progress
• Making decisions badly
• Doing work I’m not proud of

Things I am not afraid of:

• Changing my mind
• Proceeding without knowing everything about the future
• Relying on other people
• Changing the analysis and design of an existing process

Kent Beck wrote, “We can drive ourselves crazy with expectation. But by preparing for every eventuality we can think of, we leave ourselves vulnerable to the eventualities we can’t imagine.

“There is another way. By giving up explicit preparation for change, paradoxically you become entirely prepared for any change. You expect nothing. You can no longer be surprised.”