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A chat with my neighbor's kid about his summer job made me feel old
He's 16 and told me he made a simple website for a local shop, charged $500, and said 'I just googled how to do each part.' I've been overthinking my own side projects for months, trying to make them perfect before starting. How do you get past that 'it needs to be perfect' block when you're trying something new?
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karenc206h ago
Read a blog post once that called it the 'good enough' rule. Just make it work first. My first coding project was a mess. But it did the thing. Fixed the ugly parts later. That kid gets it. Google the next step, not the whole plan.
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white.keith3h ago
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spencerross2h ago
Oh man, I used to be the total opposite! I'd get stuck trying to plan out every single detail before writing a single line of code. It was paralyzing. Seeing stuff like this totally flipped my mindset. Now I just hack together a rough version that works, even if it's ugly, and clean it up from there. It's so much faster.
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