The irony is that the word is "mediocrity" when referring to an individually mediocre person, as this article seems to advocate. Unless of course your goal is to call out the culture of the company which is entirely mediocre.
Anyhoo the point is that you're better off being empathetic and understanding of people who you judge as in some way not be "adequate". And even then first have a look at yourself in the mirror - are you really so awesome? And even THEN, people don't like being criticised - it's the best way to destroy a relationship.
So perhaps if your colleague isn't performing at the level you expect you can either be quiet or help them get to the next level.
Meh. The best thing that happened to me in my life was realizing I was mediocre. It made the work/life balance a lot easier to manage, and gave me a lot more humility since I felt I had less to prove.
I am in no way a bad coder, but looking at the commit history of some projects just makes me stare in awe at what some people can do. I remember spending a conference in a sofa next to Zed Shaw as he was smashing out the basis of mongrel (i think it was). I was awestruck. Not only did he work at about three times my speed, the code was pretty as well.
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[ 2.3 ms ] story [ 25.3 ms ] threadAnyhoo the point is that you're better off being empathetic and understanding of people who you judge as in some way not be "adequate". And even then first have a look at yourself in the mirror - are you really so awesome? And even THEN, people don't like being criticised - it's the best way to destroy a relationship.
So perhaps if your colleague isn't performing at the level you expect you can either be quiet or help them get to the next level.
I am in no way a bad coder, but looking at the commit history of some projects just makes me stare in awe at what some people can do. I remember spending a conference in a sofa next to Zed Shaw as he was smashing out the basis of mongrel (i think it was). I was awestruck. Not only did he work at about three times my speed, the code was pretty as well.