I often suffer from this - and it stems for me from apparent time pressure and or resentment.<p>The time pressure is the source of all sorts of sub-optimal issues - &quot;I don&#x27;t have time to write tests, documentation, do the right thing here ... Whatever.  Including reading around the subject&quot;<p>I do think modern corporate culture contributes to this - I remember being impressed by a PhD DSP guy who was in my scrum stand up who most days would report &quot;I was reading yesterday and will be reading today&quot;.  Every so often he would say &quot;I finished reading and wrote ten lines that solved the problem&quot;<p>As a contractor I felt I could not take a similar response, but I should ... or at least should be &quot;I will be refactoring our Dbase access code &#x2F; Our API &#x2F; whatever cos it sucks rocks&quot;<p>But I am weak.<p>Oh and resentment - &quot;I don&#x27;t want to find out the details of the pointless process this pathological bureaucracy has created and I really don&#x27;t want to read a badly written set of documentation that probably does not have the real answers in it because no one likes to write the honest answers&quot;<p>Hmm, glad it&#x27;s Friday.  I am worse than usual