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[๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๋ธ”๋กœ๊ทธ ์ฝ๊ธฐ] The Curse of Knowing How, or; Fixing Everything

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https://notashelf.dev/posts/curse-of-knowing

 

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If you have a second to spare, please see the post-mortem section below. It starts innocently. You rename a batch of files with a ten-line Python script, or you alias a common git command to shave off two keystrokes. Maybe you build a small shell function

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์ตœ๊ทผ ํžˆ์Šคํ† ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ธด ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋ฅผ ๋‹ด๋‹นํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ , ๊ตฌ์กฐ์™€ ๊ตฌํ˜„ ์‚ฌํ•ญ๋“ค์„ ํŒŒ์•…ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋ฆฌํŒฉํ† ๋งํ•  ์‚ฌํ•ญ๋“ค์ด ๊ณ„์† ๋Š˜์–ด๋‚˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. '๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์— ์™œ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๊ตฌํ˜„ํ•ด๋†“์•˜์„๊นŒ'๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ•˜๋‹ค๋ณด๋ฉด ํ”ผ๊ณคํ•ด์กŒ๋‹ค. ์ด ๊ธ€์—์„œ ๋‚˜์˜จ '์‹ฌ์—ฐ์„ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์˜ค๋žซ๋™์•ˆ ์‘์‹œํ•˜๋Š”' ํ–‰์œ„์˜€์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. (์›๋ฌธ์—์„œ : Nietzsche warned of gazing too long into the abyss. ๋‹ˆ์ฒด๋Š” ์‹ฌ์—ฐ์„ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์˜ค๋žซ๋™์•ˆ ์‘์‹œํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.) ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๋ถ€์ฑ„๋ฅผ ๋– ๋งก์€ ์ž๋กœ์„œ ์ฑ…์ž„๊ฐ์— ๊ฐ‘๊ฐ‘ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ์ด ๊ธ€์„ ์ฝ๊ณ  ๋‚˜์„œ๋Š” ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์ผ์„ ๋‘๊ณ  ๊ฐ์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ€์‘ํ•˜๋ ค๊ณ  ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด ์žˆ์Œ์„ ์ธ์ •ํ•œ๋‹ค.

 

์ฝ”๋“œ ๊ฐœ์„ ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ํ–‰์œ„์— ๋‚˜์˜ ํ†ต์ œํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ํ•˜๋Š” ์š•๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ˜์˜๋  ๊ฒƒ์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

 But in hindsight, I was also feeding something else: a compulsion to assert control.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ง€๊ธˆ ๋Œ์ด์ผœ๋ณด๋ฉด, ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ‚ค์šฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋˜ ์…ˆ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฆ‰, ํ†ต์ œ๋ ฅ์„ ํ–‰์‚ฌํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ๊ฐ•๋ฐ•๊ด€๋…์ด์ฃ .

 

But programming lures us into believing we can control the outside events. That is where the suffering begins. There is something deeper happening here. This is not just about software.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋ฐ์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์™ธ๋ถ€ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์„ ํ†ต์ œํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ญ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์„œ ๊ณ ํ†ต์ด ์‹œ์ž‘๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ๋” ๊นŠ์€ ๋ฌด์–ธ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์€ ๋‹จ์ง€ ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ์›จ์–ด์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค

 

ํ˜„์‹ค์—์„œ ํ†ต์ œํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํ†ต์ œ ์š•๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ์›จ์–ด ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ๋กœ ์ด ๊ธ€์˜ ์ž‘์„ฑ์ž๋Š” ์ถฉ์กฑํ•œ ์ ์ด ์žˆ๋‚˜๋ณด๋‹ค. ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์ž๋“ค์€ ๋ณธ์ธ๋“ค์ด ์ž‘์„ฑํ•˜๋Š” ์ฝ”๋“œ์™€ ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ์›จ์–ด์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํ†ต์ œ๋ ฅ์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๋งž๋‹ค. ๋‚˜๋„ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋งˆ์Œ๋Œ€๋กœ ํœ˜๋‘๋ฅด๊ณ  ์กฐ์ž‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ํ†ต์ œํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ํ•˜๋Š” ์š•๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์ผํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ํ’€์—ˆ์„ ์ง€๋„ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ๋‹ค. 

๋ฆฌํŒฉํ† ๋ง์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ž‘์—… ์ž์ฒด์— ๋‚ด ํ†ต์ œ ์š•๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ๋“ค์–ด ์žˆ์„ ๊ฑฐ๋ž€ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ... ์ธ์ •ํ•œ๋‹ค.

 

๊ธฐ์ˆ ์  ์ง€์‹์ด ๋„๋•์  ์ฑ…์ž„์ด ๋˜์—ˆ์„ ๋•Œ, ์–ด์ฐŒํ•˜๋‚˜

Now that Iโ€™ve learned to notice, my perception of software has changed in its entirety.

Every piece of software becomes a TODO list.
Every system becomes a scaffolding for a better one.
Every inconvenience becomes an indictment of inaction.

์ด์ œ ์•Œ์•„์ฐจ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ฒ•์„ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๋ฉด์„œ ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ์›จ์–ด์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ œ ์ธ์‹์ด ์™„์ „ํžˆ ๋ฐ”๋€Œ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ชจ๋“  ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ์›จ์–ด์˜ ๋ถ€๋ถ„๋“ค์€ ํ•  ์ผ ๋ชฉ๋ก์ด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
๋ชจ๋“  ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์€ ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋ฐœํŒ์ด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
๋ชจ๋“  ๋ถˆํŽธํ•จ์€ ๋‚˜ํƒœํ•จ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ณ ๋ฐœ์žฅ์ด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

 

์•„๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ์žˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ ๋ถ€์กฑํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ณด์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ณ , ์ด๊ฒƒ์„ ์•„๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ์ž์ฒด๊ฐ€ ์ฑ…์ž„์ด ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฑด๋ฐ. ์ด ๊ธ€์„ ์“ฐ์‹  ๋ถ„์€ ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ์–‘์‹ฌ์ ์ด๊ณ  ์ฑ…์ž„๊ฐ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์ž์ธ ๋“ฏ ํ•˜๋‹ค. (๋‚˜์—๊ฒŒ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๋ถ€์ฑ„๋ฅผ ๋‚จ๊ฒจ์ค€ ์ „์ „์ „... ๋‹ด๋‹น์ž๋“ค์€ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์ƒ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด๋‚˜ ํ•˜์…จ์„๊นŒ...)

๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๋ถ€์ฑ„์˜ ์ด์ž์— ์น˜์—ฌ๋ดค๋˜ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์œผ๋กœ์จ, ์ง€๊ธˆ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ์˜ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๋ถ€์ฑ„๋“ค์„ ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์˜ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๊ฒช์„ ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์— ๋ชธ์„œ๋ฆฌ์น˜๋Š” ์ค‘์ด๋‹ค. ์ •๋ง ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์˜ ๋‚˜๋งŒ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ฝ”๋“œ ๊ฐœ์„ ์— ํž˜์“ฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ€? ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด๋ณด๋‹ˆ ๊ทธ๋ ‡์ง€๋งŒ๋„ ์•Š๋‹ค. '์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋” ์ข‹์€ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Œ์—๋„ ํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๋Š” ํ˜„์žฌ์˜ ์ƒํ™ฉ'์— ์•ˆํƒ€๊นŒ์›€์„ ๋А๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฑด ๋‹ด๋‹น์ž๋กœ์„œ์˜ ์ฑ…์ž„๊ฐ๋„ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๊ฒ ๋‹ค. ์ด ์ฑ…์ž„๊ฐ์—์„œ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์ž์œ ๋กญ์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฑด ๋‚˜๋„ '๋„๋•์  moral'์ธ ์‹œ๊ฐ์—์„œ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค.

 

But try telling that to the part of your brain that sees every inefficiency as a moral failing.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋น„ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ์„ ๋„๋•์  ์‹คํŒจ๋กœ ๋ณด๋Š” ๋‡Œ์˜ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์— ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๋ง์„ ํ•ด๋ณด์„ธ์š”.

 

์ฝ”๋“œ ๊ฐœ์„ ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ๋“ค๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๊ผญ ์ฑ…์ž„๊ฐ์œผ๋กœ ๋„๋•์  ์–‘์‹ฌ์˜ ๊ฐ€์ฑ…์„ ๋А๋‚„ ํ•„์š” ์—†๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฑด, ๋‚ด๊ฒŒ ์ž์œ ๋ฅผ ์ฃผ๋Š” ๋ง์ด๊ธฐ๋„ํ•˜๋‹ค.

 

The first step is recognizing that not everything broken is yours to fix.
Not every tool needs replacing.
Not every bad experience is a call to action.

์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ๋‹จ๊ณ„๋Š” ๊ณ ์žฅ ๋‚œ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋‹น์‹ ์ด ๊ณ ์น  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ธ์‹ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
๋ชจ๋“  ๋„๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๊ต์ฒดํ•  ํ•„์š”๋Š” ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
๋ชจ๋“  ๋‚˜์œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ด ํ–‰๋™์„ ์ด‰๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

 

Sometimes, itโ€™s OK to just use the thing. Sometimes itโ€™s enough to know why itโ€™s brokenโ€”even if you donโ€™t fix it. Sometimes the most disciplined thing you can do is walk away from the problem you know how to solve. Thereโ€™s a kind of strength in that.

๋•Œ๋กœ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ด๋„ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋•Œ๋กœ๋Š” ๊ณ ์น˜์ง€ ์•Š๋”๋ผ๋„ ๊ณ ์žฅ ์›์ธ์„ ์•„๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ๋„ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋•Œ๋กœ๋Š” ํ•ด๊ฒฐ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์„ ์•„๋Š” ๋ฌธ์ œ์—์„œ ๋ฒ—์–ด๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํ˜„๋ช…ํ•œ ํ–‰๋™์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ์ผ์ข…์˜ ํž˜์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

 

๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค ๊ณ ์ณ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ๋‹ค! ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฐ์ •์ ์ธ ์ƒ๊ฐ์„ ๋ˆ„๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์„ ์•Œ๋ ค์ค€๋‹ค. ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์กด์žฌ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹˜์„ ์•„๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. 'ํ•ด์•ผํ•œ๋‹ค'๋Š” ๊ฐ•๋ฐ•์„ ๋‚ด๋ ค๋†“๊ณ  'ํ•  ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ๊ณ , ์•ˆ ํ•  ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ๋‹ค'๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

 

์•ˆ์ •์„ฑ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ํ˜„์ƒํƒœ๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ, ๋งˆ์ด๋„ˆํ•œ ์ด์Šˆ์ผ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ํ˜„์ƒํƒœ๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋„ ์ผ์ข…์˜ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์‹œ๊ฐ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚ด๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํŒ๋‹จ์ธ ๋“ฏํ•˜๋‹ค.

 

๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๊ฒฐ๋ก ์€, ํ†ต์ œ ์š•๊ตฌ ๋‚ด๋ ค ๋†“๊ณ  ๋ฆฌํŒฉํ† ๋ง ์šฐ์„ ์ˆœ์œ„ ํŒ๋‹จํ•˜๊ธฐ

Knowing which problems are worth your energy.
Knowing which projects are worth maintaining.
Knowing when youโ€™re building to helpโ€”and when youโ€™re building to cope.
Knowing when to stop.

์–ด๋–ค ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€๋ฅผ ํˆฌ์žํ•  ๊ฐ€์น˜๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ์•„๋Š” ๊ฒƒ.
์–ด๋–ค ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๊ฐ€ ์œ ์ง€ํ•  ๊ฐ€์น˜๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ์•„๋Š” ๊ฒƒ.
์–ธ์ œ ๋„์›€์„ ์ฃผ๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด, ์–ธ์ œ ๋Œ€์ฒ˜ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ์•„๋Š” ๊ฒƒ.
์–ธ์ œ ๋ฉˆ์ถฐ์•ผ ํ• ์ง€ ์•„๋Š” ๊ฒƒ.

 

๋ฆฌํŒฉํ† ๋ง์„ ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์ „์—, ์ด ๋ฆฌํŒฉํ† ๋ง์ด ์ •๋ง ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ์ž‘์—…์ธ์ง€ ํŒ๋‹จํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ณ ๋ ค ์‚ฌํ•ญ๋“ค์„ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•œ๋‹ค.

์ด ๊ธ€์˜ ์ž‘์„ฑ์ž๋Š” '์ฑ…์ž„๊ฐ์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ์ฝ”๋“œ ๊ฐœ์„ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฐ•๋ฐ•๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ •'์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ˆ™๊ณ ๋ฅผ ๊ธ€๋กœ ์ผ๋‹ค. ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฐ•๋ฐ•๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ •์€ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์ž์˜ ์–‘์‹ฌ + ํ˜„์‹ค์˜ ๋ฆฌ์†Œ์Šค ํ•œ๊ณ„(์‹œ๊ฐ„, ์—๋„ˆ์ง€, ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์ž์˜ ์‹ค๋ ฅ ๋“ฑ)๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋‚˜์˜จ ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์ด๋‹ค. ์ด ๊ฐ•๋ฐ•๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ •์„ ๋‹ค๋ฃจ๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์€ ๊ทธ ์–ด๋А ๊ฒƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ด์„ฑ์ ์ธ ํŒ๋‹จ์œผ๋กœ, ์ฃผ์–ด์ง„ ๋ฆฌ์†Œ์Šค๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋ฆฌํŒฉํ† ๋ง์˜ ์šฐ์„ ์ˆœ์œ„๋ฅผ ์ •ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. 

 

"ํ†ต์ œ ์š•๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๋ ค๋†“๊ณ  ๋ฆฌํŒฉํ† ๋ง ์šฐ์„ ์ˆœ์œ„ ์ •ํ•˜๊ธฐ"๋ฅผ ์ฒ˜์Œ์— ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ๋Š” ๋‹น์—ฐํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋‚˜ ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ฐ€, ๋‹น์—ฐํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ธฐ์— ๋‚˜๋„ ๊ทธ๋™์•ˆ ์••๋ฐ•๊ฐ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ›์•„์™”์„ ๊ฑฐ๋ผ๊ณ  ์ธ์ •ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

 

์ข€ ๋” ์ž์œ ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ์ผํ•˜์ž.