You do need to have the drive to find it. No one has all the answers, anyone who thinks they do is wrong (on oh so many levels). But if you are willing to dig in and do what it takes to find the answer. That’s better than reading it and regurgitating it at a meeting or waiting for someone to give it to you.
Nobody “wants” to do the boring work, and yet there it is, always piling up, never going anywhere, until you sit down and start working through the pile. That’s how it works. It doesn’t go anywhere. It doesn’t ask for help. It just sits and waits. Until you do the work to get it done and move onto the next thing. OR, until you figure out a way to get past it being boring, make…
At the beginning, if you falter, it doesn’t quite matter, you haven’t established anything yet. You can restart and still be okay with things. In the middle, sure you might be in the early stages of Craptivity, and if you have to restart, it will hurt because you put in so much effort to get there. But in the end, when you are closing in on the streak, this close to hitting the record, about…
You can be a lot of things to some people (probably not a lot). Or you can be a few things to fewer people, but those things that you focus hard on, you can be really good at (scary good) and have the potential to make a greater impact in those people’s lives. Which would you prefer to be?
When code comes together it sings. When a connection breaks and your code keeps running, it’s a symphony. When the environment changes and your code reloads and changes to the new dynamic, it’s a masterpiece. When the keywords and text are flying off your fingers and every time you press F5 it builds correctly, it is dreams coming to life. Good Code is Great Art. It’s not a factory. It’s not a user story. It’s…