I’m going to say something controversial, but I’m pretty sure it is true.

Pursuing a development career or hobby makes people lose their minds.  The kinds of thought processes so prized in the community are detrimental not only to the world at large, but often to the developer himself(or herself.)

Forcing people to classify everything in the world, and often to classify it as good or bad, is NOT a good way to look at the world.  Seeing everything in processes is a very simplified way to look at our subtle and nuanced existence, and despite your opinion of your brain’s power, you cannot possibly “model” the complexity of most things in your mind and believe it to be fully accurate.

Once developers get into this mindset, they start doing insane things like throwing out their furniture because they only sit on it 10 percent of the time, or eat out of a frying pan so they’ll have to wash one less dish.  Eventually they will throw out their dishes because they only use them a certain percentage of the time.  The world is not about efficiency, its about experience.  Don’t let your passion for efficiency and procedures keep you from enjoying the beauty this world has to offer.  Stay human, please…even if it means you’re not going to be the perfect dev.