Why Programmers Should Curb Their Enthusiasm, and Thinking About Computational Thinking

Programmers are constantly contributing to my open source projects (all of my projects are open source, FYI). Some are volunteering their time, others are paid through Zerocracy. While I have worked with a lot of great developers over the years, I have also come across a number of people afflicted with what I call "hazardous enthusiasm." These people have energy and often the skills, but are overzealous and don't know how to break down their changes and deliver them incrementally. People afflicted with hazardous enthusiasm frequently want to tear down and rebuild the entire architecture or implement some other huge changes, often simply for the sake of doing so.