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It depends on your personality. Some people are “serial starters”. They have enormous creative fire, feel a burning need to create something new, and once it
by Scubabear68 3y ago
It depends on your personality.
Some people are “serial starters”. They have enormous creative fire, feel a burning need to create something new, and once it starts taking form and people start using it, they get bored and move on.
Others are better finishers. They will patiently build out the core until all the required bells and whistles and niceties are there.
It’s very rare to someone good at both, such as Linus Torvalds. Maybe that is a third category, someone who starts a few great things and sticks with them for life?
- mdgrech23 3y agoI feel like these people make for terrible for coworkers. You'll build out a nice class or something that is being widely used and providing tons of value only to discover for a new key component they didn't use your class, built their own to no real advantage. It's obnoxious. Another example. I did a proof of concept, demoed it to the big bosses. Got approval for it to be built. I'm not so much at the individual contributor level anymore though. Anyhow come to find the dev team didn't build off of what I started. Built from scratch and spent the first month reimplementing what I had already built. So dumb. Why do we keep doing this in our industry.
- DJBunnies 3y agoDid you ask why