I am one of those people that have benefited from working with Gurkenglas this way.
For me in particular the main benefits have been two-fold.
Becoming more aware of short comings in how I program. Especially noticing when something I’m doing a lot has a better solution, but I haven’t gotten round to investigating alternatives because each individual time is faster to do the old way rather than learning a new way. Gurkenglas helped me get around to actually doing something about this.
Math. It could be when you are doing something that feels too ad-hoc, Gurkenglas can help you work out a more canonical approach.
Now if I had seen this post before I had worked with Gurkenglas I would most probably not have reached out for mainly two reasons
Reaching out to strangers is hard and I might not have felt that what I was doing would be worth taking up a whole other persons time.
I would probably not know what I was missing. I would think that the way I was doing things were fine and there would be little to benefit from it.
If you are thinking something similar, I’m here to tell you that you should probably try it out anyway. The risk of trying and finding that it wasn’t worth it is probably much lower than the risk of not trying and missing some good level up opportunities.
I am one of those people that have benefited from working with Gurkenglas this way.
For me in particular the main benefits have been two-fold.
Becoming more aware of short comings in how I program. Especially noticing when something I’m doing a lot has a better solution, but I haven’t gotten round to investigating alternatives because each individual time is faster to do the old way rather than learning a new way. Gurkenglas helped me get around to actually doing something about this.
Math. It could be when you are doing something that feels too ad-hoc, Gurkenglas can help you work out a more canonical approach.
Now if I had seen this post before I had worked with Gurkenglas I would most probably not have reached out for mainly two reasons
Reaching out to strangers is hard and I might not have felt that what I was doing would be worth taking up a whole other persons time.
I would probably not know what I was missing. I would think that the way I was doing things were fine and there would be little to benefit from it.
If you are thinking something similar, I’m here to tell you that you should probably try it out anyway. The risk of trying and finding that it wasn’t worth it is probably much lower than the risk of not trying and missing some good level up opportunities.