New Cottage Style: A Sunset Design Guide

One way he accomplished this was through peer-pressure rituals. In one such ritual, the group formed a procession, placed a propeller beanie on the head of someone with an overly clever solution, and then spun the propeller on the beanie, commenting on the "cleverness" of the solution. The negative attention from peers caused people to move away from clever solutions; appreciation for simple designs drew them to simple solutions. True to people being different, not everyone on the team was "malleable" enough to adopt XP. One person did not enjoy the new working style or the requirements for conformity and close cooperation, and eventually left the project. Good at Looking Around That people are good at looking around is reflected in the ways they organize the paper in their lives: books, reports, addresses, and so on. A common, human way of sorting is to use the "shell sort" algorithm: We build piles ordered according to the sorting criterion (for example, alphabetically, or by date) but leave things unsorted within any pile ...»