When starting a business, or any sort of enterprise, one can get into a great state of mind and get excited from a variety of books that teach the rules, presented as a sure way to guarantee success. This exists in programming too, it's also known as the silver bullet, either in the form of books about programming methodologies or in the form of software components and frameworks.

But how much of the success is attributed to a specific method and set of rules and how much to other factors, such as pure chance or something else, not so glamorous? This is a question raised in Luck Inc.

It seems to me that the conclusion is that the best way to learn programming or doing business is to just go out there and do stuff. The more you do, the more you will learn.

POST#0071 2009-APR-20

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