{"id":3824,"date":"2019-12-04T13:09:52","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T18:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/wordpress\/?p=3824"},"modified":"2019-12-04T13:09:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T18:09:52","slug":"the-wrong-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/?p=3824","title":{"rendered":"The Wrong Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a discussion with a colleague yesterday I decried the inefficiency of improper tool use.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t mean using a tool improperly, I mean not using the proper tool for a given task.\u00a0 We were talking about software, but this analogy popped into my head:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can use a hammer to pound in a screw,&#8221; I said.\u00a0 &#8220;It may take a few extra whacks, but a hammer will drive a screw just fine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>True enough!\u00a0 It will work.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s not the best tool for the job.\u00a0 Many people use the wrong tool out of basic ignorance.\u00a0 They simply don&#8217;t know any better.\u00a0 What they have works and they have no incentive to wonder if there&#8217;s a better way.\u00a0 But I frequently encounter people who, when faced with a screw gun, view it not with wonder and gratitude, but with fear and indignation regardless of its potential to ultimately make things easier for them.<\/p>\n<p>And then I remembered the sign that used to hang in a former Facilities Director&#8217;s office:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>People Would Rather Live With A Problem They Cannot Solve Than Accept A Solution They Cannot Understand<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Wrong-Tool.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3825\" srcset=\"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Wrong-Tool.jpeg 680w, https:\/\/romeyn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Wrong-Tool-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/romeyn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Wrong-Tool-618x348.jpeg 618w, https:\/\/romeyn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Wrong-Tool-444x250.jpeg 444w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><figcaption>&#8220;This&#8230;is wrong tool!&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a discussion with a colleague yesterday I decried the inefficiency of improper tool use.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t mean using a tool improperly, I mean not using the proper tool for a given task.\u00a0 We were talking about software, but this analogy popped into my head: &#8220;You can use a hammer to pound in a screw,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3826,"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3824\/revisions\/3826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}