This article (via kottke.org) about doctors’ decision making is fascinating. I’ve long been interested in how doctors are trained to diagnose illnesses. It seems that much of this ability applies directly to working in IT. We rely far too much on intuition and guesswork, and I have to say that most people in the industry aren’t actually very good at it.
If doctors did diagnosis like most IT so-called professionals, you’d go to the doctor with chest pains, have a quadruple bypass since we just as well fix them all while we’re there, and then recover to find out the pain is still happening from indigestion.