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Doing it a lot will give you two things that might not be obvious (in addition to general skill). 1. You’ll get better at knowing what to leave out from future

Doing it a lot will give you two things that might not be obvious (in addition to general skill). 1. You’ll get better at knowing what to leave out from future projects, or finding simple alternatives. For example, for one recent project I built a semi complex payment scheme that used stripe. For my current project I’m using Gumroad, which costs more but should save a bunch of time. 2. You’ll develop a massive set of pre-written code you can reuse. I went through the steps of figuring out how to configure Redis/Django/Heroku for asynchronous tasks on a project 2 years ago, and it’s simple for me to drop in my pre-existing code for anything I build now.

Mizza 5y ago
> You’ll develop a massive set of pre-written code you can reuse. I went through the steps of figuring out how to configure Redis/Django/Heroku for asynchronous tasks on a project 2 years ago, and it’s simple for me to drop in my pre-existing code for anything I build now. This pays off in spades. -- Picasso was at a Paris market when an admirer approached and asked if he could do a quick sketch on a paper napkin for her. Picasso politely agreed, promptly created a drawing, and handed back the napkin — but not before asking for a million Francs. The lady was shocked: “How can you ask for so much? It took you five minutes to draw this!” “No”, Picasso replied, “It took me 40 years to draw this in five minutes.” EDIT: Additionally, learn to use a command line tool called `ripgrep`.