{"id":390,"date":"2011-03-07T18:58:19","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T23:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/judykat.com\/ken\/?p=390"},"modified":"2011-03-07T18:58:19","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T23:58:19","slug":"life-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/life-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"Life lie (Excuses)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2507\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/nine-software-development-aphorisms\/4247957432_62ff8166fd_m\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/4247957432_62ff8166fd_m.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"240,240\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"4247957432_62ff8166fd_m\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/4247957432_62ff8166fd_m.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/4247957432_62ff8166fd_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"4247957432_62ff8166fd_m\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/4247957432_62ff8166fd_m.jpg 240w, https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/4247957432_62ff8166fd_m-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/>Are there lies you tell yourself to face work each day?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If you take the life lie from an average man, you take away his happiness as well&#8221; &#8212; <em>The Wild Duck Act V<\/em>, Henrik Ibsen<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Developers often feel powerless in their workplace. At agile conferences I&#8217;ve heard:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>it&#8217;s the nature of the business<\/li>\n<li>it&#8217;s not my responsibility<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t have the authority<\/li>\n<li>I do what I&#8217;m told<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yes, we have to pick our battles and yes we can&#8217;t always win. Fear is a hard thing. But it seems obvious that a way of working doesn&#8217;t mean anything unless we use it to change what we do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are there lies you tell yourself to face work each day? &#8220;If you take the life lie from an average man, you take away his happiness as well&#8221; &#8212; The Wild Duck Act V, Henrik Ibsen Developers often feel powerless &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/life-lie\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[19,814,52,813,93],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software-development","tag-agile-software-development","tag-fear","tag-happiness","tag-henrik-ibsen","tag-work"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/4247957432_62ff8166fd_m.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":888,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions\/888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}