6 months ago
It’s just over the hill, peeking out at you like a gopher. It’s waiting for you to put down whatever you’re frustrated with and walk over the hill to see what is there. It’s not a quick win, it’s not low-hanging fruit – it’s a project – it will take time, energy, and effort. But in the end, it will be worth it. If you want to see.
6 months ago
This is one of the best quotes from Moneyball. Talking, talking, talking, but never taking the chance, never taking the risk, never willing to press the button. I’ll keep it simple… Things will break. Debugging is never straightforward. Work isn’t easy. You won’t succeed the first time. But if all you do is talk, you will never learn, you will never grow, you will never find the next path you should be on. Don’t talk about it, do it.
7 months ago
I read two types of articles these days; We completed our work within 4 hours and have a new product. I was hired to come in and fix a company’s product and have spent the last 2 weeks making it scale. The answer is in the middle: find the right people who use the right tools, to deliver the right thing somewhere in the middle. The middle is where we all want to be, but it’s not Instagram-worthy enough to get there, so we go with Option 1, but then when 1 breaks, we are forced into 2. Somewhere in
7 months ago
There are ways to fix your problems. I can do it fast by getting vibe coding it- and it will look nice, but may not scale. I can do it with no code, but I might be limited by how far I can take it with the features made available to me; it probably won’t look as nice as if I’d Vibe Coded, as it will be following a structured template. I can code it myself; this might take longer and scale, and I will still need to build a UX on top of it. This is where code is
7 months ago
Only a few people know the value of your work, the expert being you. Whether you’re salaried, part-time, or contract – your worth, what you deliver, what your work says about you never changes. You can turn in the same slop that AI can produce, quickly, without review, based on your first prompt. Or you can sit there, refine it, tweak it, validate answers, and demonstrate the value that you deliver that goes beyond quick and easy. The game hasn’t changed, who you are competing with, and the hype and media they have behind them has.
