{"id":18251,"date":"2013-05-29T01:06:30","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T23:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=18251"},"modified":"2013-05-29T01:06:31","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T23:06:31","slug":"the-notion-that-youre-trying-to-control-the-proce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/05\/29\/the-notion-that-youre-trying-to-control-the-proce\/","title":{"rendered":"The notion that you’re trying to control the proce…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The notion that you’re trying to control the process and prevent error screws things up. We all know the saying “it’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission”. And everyone knows that, but I think there is a corollary: if everyone is trying to prevent error, it screws things up. It’s better to fix problems than to prevent them. And the natural tendency for managers is to try and prevent error and over plan things.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ed Catmull<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

The notion that you’re trying to control the process and prevent error screws things up. We all know the saying “it’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission”. And everyone knows that, but I think there is a corollary: if everyone is trying to prevent error, it screws things up. It’s better to fix problems … Continue reading The notion that you’re trying to control the proce…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3187,580,2977],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-18251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-general","tag-ed-catmull","tag-management","tag-pixar","post_format-post-format-quote"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27279,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2017\/01\/30\/sharing-constants-between-php-classes\/","url_meta":{"origin":18251,"position":0},"title":"Sharing constants between PHP classes","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"January 30, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"When writing larger applications, it is often useful to have some constants defined, which can then be shared between different parts of the application. \u00a0There are several ways to do this, and there is no real rocket science here. 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