How do you know when to take someone’s advice and when to ignore it? Today’s link lays out a few simple steps to figure out When ignoring advice makes sense. There’s no shortage or advice for programmers out there, but there’s just no way all of it works for every single programmer. If you have a process for evaluating advice, you can be sure that the advice you reject really doesn’t work for you. If you just flail around and try stuff, well maybe the things you don’t like really don’t work for you, but on the other hand maybe they just feel weird and that makes you want to stop and go back to normal before you’ve really given them a chance.
Go forth and ignore some advice, safe in the knowledge that you gave it a fair shot and it really didn’t work for you :)