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I wish I had learned to keep my head down and code without the expectation to release. Because nothing I released in the first 4 years of programming profession
by Kequc 9y ago
I wish I had learned to keep my head down and code without the expectation to release. Because nothing I released in the first 4 years of programming professionally was good, at least not by my standards today. Try telling me that 6 years ago.
I was dead set on building entire products, it's why I loved programming. It was why I love lego. But in hindsight it would have been a better use of my time to work on smaller projects and ideas. As almost nothing ever got finished before I was working on something new. I have very little in terms of a tangible outcome from that time period, and it extended beyond those first 4 years.
Now I wouldn't want to work on a full product before I knew I had all the larger parts finished first. I wouldn't want to work on those larger parts before I knew I had the smaller parts those larger parts depend on first.
Programming with this mindset has provided me not only with endless work to do. But less stressful, more satisfying, easily digestible work with semi regular tangible outcomes.