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I know this is for a name but I have a cure: Have a friend or close colleague that always starts without reading -- an eager beaver. You can piggy back on that
by clavalle 17y ago
I know this is for a name but I have a cure:
Have a friend or close colleague that always starts without reading -- an eager beaver. You can piggy back on that person's momentum and they can pick your brain when they inevitably get stuck or do something non-optimally because they simply don't know of a better technique.
- callahad 17y agoThat's the situation I'm in right now. The co-founder is of the "Let's get it working now" mentality, while all I want to do is slow down, take out a notepad, and really think through how everything will eventually fit together. And it causes some friction, especially when working remotely. I'll wake up, look at a checkin, and think to myself "this isn't going to work in the long term." But you know what? It does work today. And without my co-founder, I'd still be stuck theorizing on how to make things work. So we've adopted a routine where he forges ahead, and I look at his checkins and do cleanup. It works really well. Instead of trying to conjure a perfect design out of thin air, he delivers a rough approximation, and I steer it towards a "better" or "more maintainable" place when it needs it. It helps him work, since I'm no longer trying to slow the process, and it helps me work, since I'm now dealing with concrete items.