Code Soloist #18: The distance is the same
Imagine you are standing on one side of a football field. You start running towards the other end, and depending on how many times you’ve done this before, you feel pain, or fatigue, or burning in your lungs. Or perhaps just the sheer pleasure of feeling warm wind in your face. When you reach the other side, you are finished.
Now, run the same field, but this time, be an ant. Run over the mountainous pebbles, through the oceanic puddles, frantically over this giant world. It seems like the earth could swallow you up at any moment. But it doesn’t, and you wouldn’t notice if it could, because you’re an ant. Your gaze never leaves the ground, you’re just looking at one thing after another as your legs push you toward the end. But you don’t have a temporal lobe, so you wouldn’t know the end when you got there.
The distance between good and great software is always the same. It’s the same football field. What’s different is how big you feel, and what you’re paying attention to along the way.
Code Soloist is for single-person software development companies that are trying to start something big with their bare hands. In it, I try to impart whatever I’ve learned, for better or worse, doing the same thing badly.
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