Slow building in layers, with each layer providing a context and a foundation for the next.
That takes time, and can be V E R Y, V E R Y, B O R I N G.
In order to do infrastructure successfully, we need to commit to a long, protracted development process, with a shitton of testing at every stage, and refusing to go on to the next stage, until we have the one we're working on, now, complete.
And we may not even see the final results. We may simply be the first-stage booster of the project, and our name may be buried in the dust, raised by the folks that stand on our shoulders, and get the credit.
It's not easy. I've done it, multiple times.
American culture, as it stands now, is no so good at this kind of mindset.
Slow building in layers, with each layer providing a context and a foundation for the next.
That takes time, and can be V E R Y, V E R Y, B O R I N G.
In order to do infrastructure successfully, we need to commit to a long, protracted development process, with a shitton of testing at every stage, and refusing to go on to the next stage, until we have the one we're working on, now, complete.
And we may not even see the final results. We may simply be the first-stage booster of the project, and our name may be buried in the dust, raised by the folks that stand on our shoulders, and get the credit.
It's not easy. I've done it, multiple times.
American culture, as it stands now, is no so good at this kind of mindset.