The slogan version of some thoughts I’ve been having lately are in the vein of “Hurry is the root of all evil”. Thinking in terms of code. I’ve been working in a new dev environment recently and have felt the siren song of, “Copy the code in the tutorial. Just import all the packages they tell you to. Don’t sweat the details man, just go with it. Just get it running.” All that as opposed to “Learn what the different abstractions are grounded in, figure out what tools do what, figure out exactly what I need, and use whatever is necessary to accomplish it.”
When I ping myself about why the former feels to have tug, I come up with 1). a tiny fear of not being capable of understanding the fine details and 2). a tiny fear that if understanding is possible, it will take a lot of time and WE’RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME!
Which is interesting, because this is just a side project that I’m doing for fun over winter break, which is specifically designed to get me to learn more.
The slogan version of some thoughts I’ve been having lately are in the vein of “Hurry is the root of all evil”. Thinking in terms of code. I’ve been working in a new dev environment recently and have felt the siren song of, “Copy the code in the tutorial. Just import all the packages they tell you to. Don’t sweat the details man, just go with it. Just get it running.” All that as opposed to “Learn what the different abstractions are grounded in, figure out what tools do what, figure out exactly what I need, and use whatever is necessary to accomplish it.”
When I ping myself about why the former feels to have tug, I come up with 1). a tiny fear of not being capable of understanding the fine details and 2). a tiny fear that if understanding is possible, it will take a lot of time and WE’RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME!
Which is interesting, because this is just a side project that I’m doing for fun over winter break, which is specifically designed to get me to learn more.