The hard part for me is finding the time to do it all myself—even if I can learn it all, it simply doesn’t scale to wait for me to do all the work, and somehow

The hard part for me is finding the time to do it all myself—even if I can learn it all, it simply doesn’t scale to wait for me to do all the work, and somehow fix my own bugs/problems with my ideas. But knowing something about everything does make it easier to work with others and defer to their expertise while also offering suggestions or doing an extra bit of code review. My personal preference is to look up best practices as I need to, just-in-time, or just get it done if I’ve done something similar recently. It’s really important to work with others though, especially when they’ve specialized knowledge and experience to share. Building it yourself or as a generalist alone often means a lot of learning-it-the-hard-way. But it’s always possible, if you can accept the tradeoffs or build a smaller subset of a system.