I upvoted this mainly because of reason 7. The joy of side projects particularly contrasted with feature lists in the day job really struck home, having just r

I upvoted this mainly because of reason 7. The joy of side projects particularly contrasted with feature lists in the day job really struck home, having just recently finally launched a side project (http://lessonslearnedby.us/ http://lessonslearnedby.us/) with a friend, one made possible by being written in a dynamic language no less. The point about writing the minimum to make something useful is something I've only recently fully grokked and I think the humility of saying "mistakenly believes he's better" is good to keep in mind.