He/Him; Senior Software Developer, IT Swiss-army-knife, 3 programming blades, 1 hardware, 1 networking and infrastructure and a corkscrew. The tweezers have long since been lost. (Recent ADHD diag.)
Early in my career I thought of projects like beloved pets. Defended them with zeal and took criticism and changes as personal attacks. This is an error.
It's important to understand that the needs that are the reason for a project to exist are not permanent, are not often well understood, and that the solution you've devised or built can easily be replaced by something better, cheaper or just plane no longer needed, that its scope can be altered and what you thought was super important can be removed at any time.
The value you have is not locked in what you make, its in the making of those things.
AH on this, I had a professor who used to say, "Don't be afraid to kill your babies" -- in regards to not being too precious about ideas and trying different things out. The wording is definitely extreme but I think the lesson here is quality!
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Early in my career I thought of projects like beloved pets. Defended them with zeal and took criticism and changes as personal attacks. This is an error.
It's important to understand that the needs that are the reason for a project to exist are not permanent, are not often well understood, and that the solution you've devised or built can easily be replaced by something better, cheaper or just plane no longer needed, that its scope can be altered and what you thought was super important can be removed at any time.
The value you have is not locked in what you make, its in the making of those things.
AH on this, I had a professor who used to say, "Don't be afraid to kill your babies" -- in regards to not being too precious about ideas and trying different things out. The wording is definitely extreme but I think the lesson here is quality!