Law of the Instrument and Curse of the Programmer
January 10, 2018
If you aren’t familiar with the Law of the Instrument, otherwise known asMaslow’s hammer/gavel, or the golden hammer it is often expressed as
If your only tool is a hammer, you treat everything like a nail.
My understanding is that the law of the instrument means you are limited by instruments or tools you know how to use. For example, if you have a screw, some wood, and a hammer, then…