teams that feel like bands

April 15, 2021 7:53 AM

Hisham H. Muhammad writes "A love letter to bands, in music and code", reminiscing on the feeling of being in a team that is, or feels like, a band: "work done in a collective yields results of a different nature....When I’m in a collective environment — and by that I mean any setting where my work is presented to and discussed by others as it is developed — even when I’m doing work completely on my own, even before I’ve had my first piece of feedback, I feel a sort of mind game playing in my head where I 'play the part' of my peers and imagine what their feedback would be, be it consciously or subconsciously. I’m doing the work not only for myself, but for others too, whose opinions I care about."
posted by brainwane (1 comment total)

That was really sweet.

I wonder who could make a similar comparison of their time on big engineering projects and time in an orchestra (or opera company or repertory company — oh look, we already called them companies).
posted by clew at 9:23 AM on April 15, 2021