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Comment on Ask HN: Too "smart" for my own good?

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I get the smart but slow thing ALL THE TIME.

When on contracts I often have quite heated debates because everyone who is running, is almost always running right into a brick wall that they refuse to acknowledge... until it happens.

And then guess who they turn to to dig them out of the shite? Oh yes the smart guy (who saw it coming).

It pissed me off to the extent that I made a conscious decision to break free of the contractor world and go it alone.

I probably am slow, but I like to refer to it as considered. It means I take the best possible path having weighed up the odds, and not rush into the one that seems obvious.

It means sometimes I end up with a counter intuitive result, which works far better than the one other people expect to be the answer.

And I'm much happier with that.

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