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📣 xcubic

Lightbulb moments: Concepts and ideas that made you go forward


Lightbulb moments: Concepts and ideas that made you go forward


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Some years back, I was a senior software engineer and I was becoming less productive, because I was afraid I might produce code that wasn't judged as senior-software-engineer quality. My manager started to get a little concerned. One day I realized that If I just got stuff done that mattered, the judgment of other people about my code quality really wouldn't matter. Ever since then, I have just written the code I thought needed to be written, without a care about how anyone might look down on it, regardless of whether they are a higher or lower level than me. I have gotten consistently good ratings with this approach.

Later I learned about an experiment that compared different groups of photography students, and the ones that were instructed to produce more pictures without regard to quality actually produced better pictures in the end than groups who were told to produce 1 perfect picture. Produce a lot and the quality will naturally come! https://jamesclear.com/repetitions


👤 codegeek
My lightbulb moment was that I was pushing 32 and life was running away and I was not working towards my goals of starting my own thing. Didn't really have a specific idea but I got started by buying someone else's validated idea and went all in.