> I've literally never seen a challenging and well run project in almost 10 years in this business.
I'm not sure the direction of causality here. Reminds me of "In theory, practice is just like theory, but in practice it rarely is."
I think your ideals are pushing you to great places, but your experience is showing you that it either doesn't exist or at least you haven't found it yet. I've been a part of projects that I'm very proud of that have all kinds of awfulness that I'd rather have not done. Still pretty good work in my opinion, and I'm not sure that good work is fully purposeful and correct at every point.
I'm not sure the direction of causality here. Reminds me of "In theory, practice is just like theory, but in practice it rarely is."
I think your ideals are pushing you to great places, but your experience is showing you that it either doesn't exist or at least you haven't found it yet. I've been a part of projects that I'm very proud of that have all kinds of awfulness that I'd rather have not done. Still pretty good work in my opinion, and I'm not sure that good work is fully purposeful and correct at every point.