Most readers will be intimately familiar with Douglas Adams’ work. If you’re not, it’s definitely worth a read. One item that relates to engineering and project planning that always springs to mind too late in a project was a concept he included in Life, The Universe and Everything: The ‘SEP’ – ‘Somebody Else’s Problem’.
This concept is basically a sort of cloaking field where people ignore something by assuming it’s somebody else’s problem.
“An S.E.P., […] is something that we can’t see, or don’t see, or our brain doesn’t let us see, because we think that it’s somebody else’s problem. […] The brain just edits it out; it’s like a blind spot.”
—Douglas Adams. Life, The Universe and Everything, Chapter 3 Continue reading “Books about Software Development: Life the Universe and Everything”