Meh. The best thing that happened to me in my life was realizing I was mediocre. It made the work/life balance a lot easier to manage, and gave me a lot more hu

Meh. The best thing that happened to me in my life was realizing I was mediocre. It made the work/life balance a lot easier to manage, and gave me a lot more humility since I felt I had less to prove. I am in no way a bad coder, but looking at the commit history of some projects just makes me stare in awe at what some people can do. I remember spending a conference in a sofa next to Zed Shaw as he was smashing out the basis of mongrel (i think it was). I was awestruck. Not only did he work at about three times my speed, the code was pretty as well.