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This is the typical coming of age of the “new/inexperienced” engineer who wants to build everything from the ground up since he thinks he can do it all better,
by tacker2000 4y ago
This is the typical coming of age of the “new/inexperienced” engineer who wants to build everything from the ground up since he thinks he can do it all better, with new languages, fresh ideas and it will be finished “next week” anyway.
Ultimately he will learn a lot about himself and the problems he wants to solve, but can never finish them, since he will realize that he cannot do it all at once - the solutions that are available have already had thousands of man hours poured into them.
He will learn to prioritize and think more about conceptualization and pre planning, and how to leverage existing solutions more.
- mathgladiator 4y agoAuthor here, you're right except I'm on the far end of inexperienced. I'm basically retired, and the core isn't isn't that I can't execute. It's that it will take too long until I can invite people in to play with me. What I forgot was how hard it is to teach just one thing at a time, so I'm focusing on that one thing. I still believe in my end vision, but I need to bring others along for the ride.