The other day I was watching this very good video where The Pragmatic Engineer interviews Martin Fowler here.
Approximately one hour and 31 minutes in, Martin says that he enjoys discussing with people who are expressing different perspectives and uncertainty rather than telling just ‘how it is’ with full confidence. Then he takes me as the positive example.
This was extremely nice to hear since Martin has been my leading source of inspiration since around 2000. For example he made me decide to write a second book when he referred to my first in his seminal book Patterns of Enterprise Applications Architecture (PoEAA) 2003.
A fun anecdote related to what Martin said about me was that I spoke at a conference in USA a few years earlier. The organiser provided me clear feedback that I had to stop saying “maybe” on stage and provide different suggestions as solutions to the same problem. “Just tell them how it is!” they told me.
They did invite me back several times so I guess it wasn’t too bad, but still fun how different people think about the same thing. Your weaknesses are your strengths and vice versa, it just depends on the context?
Dear Martin, thank you!
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