Alex once told me that he had never fallen completely unexpectedly\u2014meaning without at least some prior inclination that it could happen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
That is amazing and shows that Alex is simply operating at a higher level. I would make the blanket generalization that most climbers have fallen while climbing without anticipating it.<\/p>\n
Why this sticks out to me is when I apply it to other fields. Outdoor climbing can easily be a life or death ordeal. Software generally is not life or death during development.<\/p>\n
Can you imagine a programmer who writes code that doesn’t crash without the programmer having some prior inclination? That sounds impossible right? Or a slow development cycle.<\/p>\n
I’m not saying that programmers need to be able to anticipate every crash ever. But if someone were able to never have their code crash without\u00a0prior inclination, that’s\u00a0awesome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Earlier this year,\u00a0Alex Honnold scaled El Capitan without ropes. That was an impressive & dangerous feat by Alex. What stuck with me is this quote about Alex from\u00a0Tommy Caldwell: Alex once told me that he had never fallen completely unexpectedly\u2014meaning without at least some prior inclination that it could happen. That is amazing and shows […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1029],"tags":[1357,1364,1363,1359,1365,1362,1358,1361,1360],"class_list":["post-2201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","tag-alex","tag-crash","tag-crashing","tag-elcapitan","tag-fall","tag-falling","tag-honnold","tag-inclination","tag-prior"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2203,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201\/revisions\/2203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}