I’m just finishing the book “Out of the Crisis” by W. Edwards Deming. The book is a treasure chest of ideas and thoughts. This one I found particularly interesting
"Experience without theory teaches nothing. In fact,
experience cannot be even recorded unless there is some
theory, however crude, that leads to a hypothesis and to a
system by which to catalog observations”Source: Mind and the World Order. Clarence Lewis. 1956, Page 195.
Quoted in Out of the Crisis. Edward Deming. 1991. Page 317.
I wonder if this explains why developers with 10 or more years of development experience are still doing the same mistakes they did as junior developers. If you stop searching for knowledge, if you are no longer looking for theory to explain what is happening around you, you stop learning. After 10 years you are still a junior developer.
