Comments on: 5 Ways to Engage Optimism in Software Design

By: Stefan Chachovski

Stefan Chachovski — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 12:00:25 +0000

That’s excellent Dragan, you’ve got really interesting comparison here because there’re lot of things in common between optimism/worry and panic/fear. For example, the paranoia and its ability to block reasonable judgement in many situations. Very nice observation indeed, thank you too.

By: Dragan Nikolic

Dragan Nikolic — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 15:22:59 +0000

Amazing article, Stefan. I think that the sense of worry next to being cautious has pretty much the same effect as panic compared to sense of fear. It freezes you and takes away your every ability to make the right decisions. Hence my favorite thing about this article is – Conclusion 5: Optimism leads to liberation.

Once again, one of the best articles I’ve read whole year. Thanks

By: Stefan Chachovski

Stefan Chachovski — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:24:37 +0000

Completely agree with you Slobodan; indeed, we can observe this concept in wider manner and can apply it in everyday life as well. I think the statistic is not much different there, because only tiny part of our worry will come to pass whenever/wherever you are; and most of our worry is wasted. Actually if the worry prevails you become skeptic and limited in many ways.

By: Slobodan

Slobodan — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:50:39 +0000

Beautifully written article, in addition to hitting some great points.

What you’re talking about here can be applied to much more than just IT and web apps. “I know it’s 20C now, but maybe it will get cold tonight, so I better bring my winter jacket with me” will get you to carry your jacket around 99.9% of times.

Optimism is good, everywhere and people tend to be more successful (in addition to appreciating you more) when you show that you believe in them not screwing anything up, rather than making validate and confirm every single input (“What do these guys think, that I’m an idiot?”).