What you do, how you talk, how you move, and what actions you take. These are the examples you set for what you do. They are what define you, they are what people know you for, and they are how you are remembered. If you’re worried about how you are being perceived, maybe start there, in what you are doing, today.
If your framework is overcomplicated, if it requires many steps to get up and running. If the space between start and success is a long battle fraught with many discussions, forum posts, and chats to get there. Chances are adoption won’t happen as quickly as you want it to. Adoption, in any framework, is key and critical to design. If people can’t easily get into it, it doesn’t matter what it can do.
Getting in the zone is the best thing – you’re focused, and on point, things work, and nothing can fail. The question is whether you can get there when not prompted, or can you get there on your own, can you figure out a path to get to the zone when you are not prompted? Get prompted, getting told to do something to get there to get into the zone is easy, getting there on…
If you never lose, you never know what to work on. When you lose, you know what to work on next.
As often as I forget, I am just as quickly reminded, that all development is on the fly. You can do all the courses, go through all the reading, and understand what is needed where but at the end of it all, you are always doing development on the fly. You are always learning what needs to be done in the moment and figuring out the approach to get there and make it a success…