Last Tuesday I mass-deleted a hundred lines of Python that I’d spent two days writing. Not because the code was bad. It was actually pretty elegant, if I say so myself. I deleted it because I realised I’d spent two days solving a puzzle that I should have handed to my team on Monday morning.
I love solving puzzles. That’s the problem.
The early days are different
When you’re a co-founder getting an idea off a whiteboard and into a working demo, you should be writing code. You should be writing CI pipelines. You should be debugging at 11pm with a cold coffee next to your keyboard. You should be doing devops, handling support tickets, and deploying on Fridays because there’s nobody else to do it.
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