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 ====== The world is imperfect, so let's improve it ======
 > Fixing the world, one bug at a time…
-I used to have this as a status for over a decade on one of my messaging apps. I thought it was clever.
+I used to have that ☝️ as a status for over a decade on one of my messaging apps. I thought it was clever. It also summarises my raison d'etre quite well, I feel.
-I don't remember who taught me this principle first, but it's a life saver for me. I've heard it many times in different forms, so let me give some examples so you can get a feel for it.
+I don't remember who taught me the following principle first, but it's a life saver for me. I've heard it many times in different forms. Gramski worded it much better than I could:
-> [[https://cheeseburger.social/@michaelgraaf/112019986878265510|Pessimism of intellect, optimism of the will (Gramski)]]
+> [[https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08935696.2019.1577616|Pessimism of intellect, optimism of the will]]
-That means to me that whatever the (shitty) situation is, there's always a next physical action you can take on the path to improve it.
+That means to me, roughly, that whatever the (shitty) situation is, there's always a next physical action you can take on the path to improve it.
 One of the things I liked most in my software development career, has been to fix bugs. The reason for this is that bugfixes are the most real of all features. They are changes that improve an existing and used piece of software, based on a report of a real production user that described how the software was imperfect to them. There's nothing as satisfying as _properly_ fixing a bug and presenting the fix to the end user.