Start Small, Accept Change
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As I have grown into a more experienced web developer, I have been thinking a lot more about this tweet by Joel Hooks:
There’s a tendency to jump straight to step 32 of the “new thing” vs focusing on steps 1 and 2.
“what’s the next smallest step that we can do?”
Skipping to the end can often lead to failure and hard feelings when you’ve put in a lot of work and it gets a 👎 Baby steps. 🐣 — Joel 🌧 (@jhooks)July 4, 2018
I could spend the better part of a weekend just enumerating all the times that I jumped to a solution for a problem I was working on at the time.[1]Jump to footnote Skipping past the the important groundwork of framing the problem space, and evaluating, as well as reevaluating, the problem.