Amy Blankenship
Jun 11, 2022

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I once had a Medium comment debate where the author assured me earnestly that none of the behavioral science I've learned training dogs could possibly be at all useful training programmers. Um, ok.

There's a book called The Medici Effect (https://www.amazon.com/Medici-Effect-Preface-Discussion-Guide/dp/1633692949/) which explores the idea that most problems have a solution that's well understood by people working in a different domain. But apart from that, I think that even the "woo" parts of liberal arts help software developers. I feel like the tendency to create nasty filthy code traces back to simply having no aesthetic sense that makes nasty filthy things intolerable.

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Amy Blankenship
Amy Blankenship

Written by Amy Blankenship

Full Stack developer at fintech company. I mainly write about React, Javascript, Typescript, and testing.

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