--- title: PTSD: Post-Traumatic Software Design author: Talin full_title: PTSD: Post-Traumatic Software Design category: articles url: https://medium.com/p/51e7eac44664 source: medium date: 2025-03-13 created: 2025-03-13 last_highlighted_date: 2024-10-30 --- # PTSD: Post-Traumatic Software Design  ## Metadata - Author: [[Talin]] - Full Title: PTSD: Post-Traumatic Software Design - Category: #articles - Source: medium - Last Highlighted: 2024-10-30 10:08:52.104675+00:00 - URL: https://medium.com/p/51e7eac44664 ## Highlights - This is why successful startups are often founded by young people. They don’t have the life experience to know what they can’t do. - Occasionally when interviewing an engineering candidate, I will ask them to describe some of the traumatic experiences that they have had in past jobs. I find that the answers to the question are often a good predictor of what motivates that person.