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An engineer who accomplishes every goal they set is sandbagging; hitting about half of them is the sign of someone risking and learning enough.

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ambition
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ambition How much to take on and how hard to push: superlinear returns to effort, focus, slack time, and procrastination.

What Kent Beck actually said

  1. Kent Beck Creator of extreme programming and test-driven development
    If you accomplished everything you set out to accomplish, people, you know, you're sandbagging. you're not trying hard enough. You're not risking enough. You didn't learn anything over the course of the six months.

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    ↗How Kent Beck shapes the software engineering industryyoutube.com

    1 Jul 2026 · video · 2h 28m · spoken · machine transcript

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