Your code. Your team. How you lead. What project you are working on. What you are learning. Everything, it all breaks at some point. Good. That’s the point, if it doesn’t break, you’re not learning, you’re going through tutorials and motions where everything is isolated and perfect. It’s messy, all of it, it’s supposed to be messy, that’s the point. Break it, make a mess, fix it and grow.
How will we get through this sprint? How will I finish this class? How will we ship to the customer? How will we get it done? How will we get the service uploaded? How will we launch the new site? It all starts with one task, accompanied by a number of other tasks, but in the end one task is where it starts. Focus there, on one task and move from there.
Will it be on LinkedIn? Twitter or Facebook? The algorithms have changed and the content that is sent to you has as well. This isn’t a conspiracy, this is a fact, things change, code gets optimized, what you think is the right way to do something, might not be what the actual owner of the company thinks is the best way to do it. You might both be wrong. If it’s getting harder and harder…
Now that you know, will you still try? Or are you worried about the opposite happening? It’s all going to work? Either way it should make for interesting story.
Years ago, I wanted to learn to draw better. I laid out this very straightforward, simple plan how to do it and shared it with the people in my project group (my community) so they knew my plan and knew what I was striving for. One piece of feedback I received was – “How are you going to share it with everyone else?” – to which my answer was, why do I need to do…