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Everyone can build something new and shiny on the green field. If it doesn't work out you can always find someone or something to blame, because what you set ou
by weinzierl 3y ago
Everyone can build something new and shiny on the green field. If it doesn't work out you can always find someone or something to blame, because what you set out build was an awesome, highly innovative[1] endeavor anyway. Moving on to something else new and shiny after a while is not only ok, it is expected.
Sticking to something, through good and bad times, on the other hand, that's not something many people can do, and while it is by no means sufficient in most cases it seems to be necessary for sustainable success.
Examples: Guido van Rossum[2], Linus Torvalds, Daniel Stenberg
[1] You wouldn't even have to put the "high risk" nature of it in the fine print, because it's readily understood.
[2] I could not find the source but I remember him saying in an interview when asked about Pythons's breakthrough, that it never had one but that it constantly and steadily grew.
- athrowaway3z 3y agoYou're examples have very little to do with an average org's IT projects. Not in scope, definition of 'success', or definition of 'finished'. If you're company is building a programming language or operating system you need to make sure that is what you love doing.
- weinzierl 3y agoMy point is that grit is undervalued. It exists within and outside organizations but if I'd tell you my examples from inside you wouldn't know them. Also perseverance is not the same as being stubborn and pivoting is not giving up.