In a very memorable episode from the original Narcos, there is a scene where Pablo Escobar's cousin - Gustavo is captured by the police and tortured. When he is asked for the location of Pablo, he replies - "I am a bandit, not a snitch".
Identity is one of the strongest human motivations. As in the case of Gustavo, once he identified himself as a bandit, no amount of torture could have extracted any information from him.
I had been working as a software developer for a very long time before I changed my perspective and decided to identify myself as a programmer. Once I did that, I found that I approached problems differently than I would previously.
Here is an example.
I work with a VueJs frontend which accesses a bunch of microservices. To access these services we use a proxyTable like so
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It feels like this blog post is missing a punchline...
It never reaches the point made in the title.
Also, is a typist someone who types or someone who uses type theory?
My thoughts exactly lol
Or someone who biasedly judges objects based on their type alone? :)