Jan. 17, 2021
There is no perfect app – and you will not create it either
Maybe you know that feeling: You have a recurring problem that you need some help with. Say, you want to plan and track your personal goals. If you're like me, you go to Google and type in the search term "goal app" and check out the first few results. You might also ask round your friends and get some recommendations from them. You download a few of the recommended apps and have a bash at them just to find out quickly that each only solves a fraction of your problems. Frustrated, you decide that you don't want to put up with the shortcomings of all apps. And if you're a programmer like me, you might also have a propensity to say: "Ah, I can create the perfect app for that problem" and start jotting down the features you want that app to have. Months of work later you're still struggling with some basic programming problems, and you did not work on your goals - your original problem - at all.
There is no perfect app – and you will not create it, either
Maybe you know that feeling: Yyou have a recurring problem that you need some help with.
Say, you want to plan and track your personal goals.
If you're like me, you go to Google and type in the search term "goal app" and check out the first few results.
You might also ask round your friends and get some recommendations from them.
"ask round" or "ask your friends", but not both. (Note that I am North American, so your version might sound natural to a UK speaker.)
You download a few of the recommended apps and have a bash at them just to find out quickly that each only solves a fraction of your problems.
Frustrated, you decide that you don't want to put up with the shortcomings of all the apps.
And if you're a programmer like me, you might also have a propensity to say: "Ah, I can create the perfect app for that problem" and start jotting down the features you want that app to have.
Months of work later you're still struggling with some basic programming problems, and you did not work on your goals - your original problem - at all.
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Excellent and true. I'm also a software consultant, so I can't even solve a software problem without also writing the articles about what I learned from doing it. And I have to do it in a language I don't know. Currently I'm learning Purescript instead of delivering features.
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There is no perfect app – and you will not create it either There is no perfect app – and you will not create it, either |
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Maybe you know that feeling: You have a recurring problem that you need some help with. Maybe you know that feeling: |
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Say, you want to plan and track your personal goals. Say |
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If you're like me, you go to Google and type in the search term "goal app" and check out the first few results. This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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You might also ask round your friends and get some recommendations from them. You might also ask "ask round" or "ask your friends", but not both. (Note that I am North American, so your version might sound natural to a UK speaker.) |
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You download a few of the recommended apps and have a bash at them just to find out quickly that each only solves a fraction of your problems. This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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Frustrated, you decide that you don't want to put up with the shortcomings of all apps. Frustrated, you decide that you don't want to put up with the shortcomings of all the apps. |
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And if you're a programmer like me, you might also have a propensity to say: "Ah, I can create the perfect app for that problem" and start jotting down the features you want that app to have. This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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Months of work later you're still struggling with some basic programming problems, and you did not work on your goals - your original problem - at all. This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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