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> I lost my creativity and the sense of wonder I used to have in childhood. I am no longer curious because I am settled for the world as it is. I accept things

by donatj 5y ago

> I lost my creativity and the sense of wonder I used to have in childhood. I am no longer curious because I am settled for the world as it is. I accept things the way they are instead of imagining how they could be. God that strikes close to home. I have genuinely pondered how 10-15 years ago when I didn’t know what I was doing, I had a million project ideas and just went for them with no real plan. Some of them panned out, most of them didn’t. Many I still maintain today came out of that raw energy. These days when I do (rarely) come up with a project, I know off the bat how I am going to build it. I’ve been blinded to possibility by my own experience.

sillysaurusx 5y ago
Embrace it. One advantage of being old is that my younger self was completely incapable of planning. Then sing along with https://youtu.be/GibiNy4d4gc https://youtu.be/GibiNy4d4gc while watching all the youngsters make the same mistakes.
- ordiel 5y ago
  This is gold. thanks!
moreira 5y ago
> I’ve been blinded to possibility by my own experience. I think about that a lot when it comes to design especially. The ideas that come to me are constrained by own experience and knowledge of what's simple or complicated to implement. I will naturally steer clear from anything that is convoluted to implement. Meanwhile a proper designer will come up with incredible ideas without worrying about "is it hard to code this up", they're not constrained by that at all.
- twelve40 5y ago
  but we've all been on overdesigned projects that grow convoluted to the point where they are impossible to maintain or improve without a massive rewrite.
pojzon 5y ago
This also hits home for me, but in my case - I just became aware I have no influence on most of things around me that do not fit into my perfect “working well” world. Fix that bug in production that other team struggles with for a year ? Nope, you should be working on something else, they will they care of that (/not). Try to bring up to speed some team members to have full DevOps ? Nope, ppl not interested in that, prefer to do bare minimum. Too many things you have no control of. Gets pretty discouraging very fast.

by donatj 5y ago

sillysaurusx 5y ago

Embrace it. One advantage of being old is that my younger self was completely incapable of planning. Then sing along with https://youtu.be/GibiNy4d4gc https://youtu.be/GibiNy4d4gc while watching all the youngsters make the same mistakes.

ordiel 5y ago
This is gold. thanks!

moreira 5y ago

> I’ve been blinded to possibility by my own experience. I think about that a lot when it comes to design especially. The ideas that come to me are constrained by own experience and knowledge of what's simple or complicated to implement. I will naturally steer clear from anything that is convoluted to implement. Meanwhile a proper designer will come up with incredible ideas without worrying about "is it hard to code this up", they're not constrained by that at all.

twelve40 5y ago
but we've all been on overdesigned projects that grow convoluted to the point where they are impossible to maintain or improve without a massive rewrite.

pojzon 5y ago

This also hits home for me, but in my case - I just became aware I have no influence on most of things around me that do not fit into my perfect “working well” world. Fix that bug in production that other team struggles with for a year ? Nope, you should be working on something else, they will they care of that (/not). Try to bring up to speed some team members to have full DevOps ? Nope, ppl not interested in that, prefer to do bare minimum. Too many things you have no control of. Gets pretty discouraging very fast.