The ‘best tool’: the one you keep using
What is the best tool for the job you have at hand? Kathy Sierra advocates the passion you have for a tool helps you learn to use it. Eventhough it might not be the best.
Let’s try an example. Let’s say you are an artist sculptor, and you use many tools like shisels to cut away rock so that your art will reveal itself. There are many shisels in different seizes, to cut big pieces, medium and small pieces of the rock. The shisels you use will have an effect on the outcome of your piece of art. It may even show as your signature as an artist.
So how does this translates when we talk about the tools we use on our computers, and on the web? I guess Kathy says it in her post:
When we talk about “best tool for the job”, we should look not only at “best for the task”, but also “best for those who must use it.”