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Great post; really resonates with me. I've come to realise that it's a linguistic thing. "I can't do that" vs "I can't do that yet" Personally, I've always h

by jongold 13y ago

Great post; really resonates with me. I've come to realise that it's a linguistic thing. "I can't do that" vs "I can't do that yet" Personally, I've always hated sysadmin and as a designer I can rely on Heroku for everything I'd conceivably need at the moment. I've dipped my toes into setting up VPSs in the past but I always get frustrated and give up. It's definitely not my thing. but I hate the idea of not getting the gist of how things work even more than I might not enjoy doing them. So this weekend I learnt the basics of Linux sysadmin & setting up a box with Nginx & Passenger and all that jazz. Now, in my own ethical system, I'm happy to ignore it again for the next few months/years and going back to Heroku (which I enjoy using). Is that really weird?

div 13y ago
Not weird at all. For starters, this gives you the tools to think about what could be wrong, when stuff goes wrong. Or at least a vague idea of where to start looking. The more of these 'entry points' you get the easier it gets for others, whose specialty you know a bit of, to communicate with you. Bonus points if you have a 'relative difficulty' idea for most of those entry points.