The guy is celebrating mediocrity and claims he is proud of doing shoddy work.

I guess it's a sign the tech world has reached the mainstream though, the kids who used to make fun of or ostracize the nerdy ones with good grades are now posting "insightful" blog posts about how awesome it is to be average.

Yay?

At our company, we call this the "cowboy way". Sometimes you shoot from the hip. We know the limits though. I'm frequently frustrated by architecture astronauts, but sometimes they're good to have around. The key is balancing the astronauts and the cowboys. Neither camp is 100% right.

Wow, that's a terrific article. Even if I don't agree with 100% of it, I really like his no-BS delivery.

I liked it. It was much better than "Cats". I'm going to read it again and again.

I liked a lot of these.

Détente?