> if you had walked in a year previously with exactly the same plan would you have gotten any traction?
Nope, most of the time it wouldn't and my experience bears that out ("Let's not boil the ocean...").
Thinking simple, and avoiding premature optimisation, are so often the right thing that we can forget that they don't always work.
Teams and people often prefer to learn the hard way. Mind you _I_ haven't built any companies or startups, and my up approach probably would lend itself to do that either.
There's an adage, by Fred Brooks: "Plan to throw one [implementation] away." I come in when they are ready to throw one away, but aren't sure what to replace it with yet.
As far as it being fun, sort of. First of all I have a more 'normal' job now, second of all it's a rush, and an ego boost, but ultimately exhausting.
Nope, most of the time it wouldn't and my experience bears that out ("Let's not boil the ocean...").
Thinking simple, and avoiding premature optimisation, are so often the right thing that we can forget that they don't always work.
Teams and people often prefer to learn the hard way. Mind you _I_ haven't built any companies or startups, and my up approach probably would lend itself to do that either.
There's an adage, by Fred Brooks: "Plan to throw one [implementation] away." I come in when they are ready to throw one away, but aren't sure what to replace it with yet.
As far as it being fun, sort of. First of all I have a more 'normal' job now, second of all it's a rush, and an ego boost, but ultimately exhausting.