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>What is 'tiny' for someone with 5 years experience is 'huge' for someone new. While true, this is exactly the boring conventional wisdom that I tried to steer
by natch 5y ago
>What is 'tiny' for someone with 5 years experience is 'huge' for someone new.
While true, this is exactly the boring conventional wisdom that I tried to steer attention away from with my above comment.
While it’s a blatantly obvious duh-level truism that people can take on larger challenges as they learn, I mean come on… it’s helpful to realize that there remain tiny things — tiny by almost anyone’s definition — even later in a career. I’m not just starting out and just last week I learned yet another way to add in bash, for instance.
- davisoneee 5y agoThe point isn't that you _can_ take on larger things, it's that it can be beneficial to celebrate your learning no matter what size it is (from your own perspective). You may find it conventional wisdom, but I often find it rare for people to celebrate small achievements. They just wait for the final payoff and don't feel like any intermediate step is 'enough'.