The wisdom to tell the difference between “I’m still confused and need to orient more” and “I need to get moving” is important.
My stock advice on this: if you don’t even know what the hard parts are, then you should just dive in and try stuff in order to gather object-level data. Once you understand enough to have a decent idea of what the hard parts/bottlenecks are and why they’re hard, you’re past the point where “just dive in” has much value, and you should hold off on proposing solutions/plans.
My stock advice on this: if you don’t even know what the hard parts are, then you should just dive in and try stuff in order to gather object-level data. Once you understand enough to have a decent idea of what the hard parts/bottlenecks are and why they’re hard, you’re past the point where “just dive in” has much value, and you should hold off on proposing solutions/plans.