Ohh gosh. One more time saying "I hate when this happens"...
Have you ever felt it? That strong desire of stopping ever having to do the thing that triggers that feeling again. It makes me wish I could snap my thingers and voulá... finally say "life is so much easier now".
But, there is no such thing like a genie right? It's either I do something or someone else does. Obviously, I can't be the first one to notice so probably someone else is working on it already so I'll just focus on the thing I want to ship.
If that didn't resonate not even a little bit with you please stand up and give a round of aplause for yourself. But if you are like me, you probably have seen yourself in those situations where you are so concentrated on the finish line that you completely forgot about the journey. That's ok... at some point we all have been there.
I used to think that when I encontered a problem, there was a solution one
google search away from me. Well, turns out life has tought me that things are
not exactly like that. When I run that npm dev and the thing takes an eternity
to do something or I hit that thing that constantly breaks the flow, how would
the internet is supposed to know that? It wouldn't right? Only people that run
npm dev could get frustrated by the slownesness. Maybe they just didn't
noticed that and either way, the only way to find out is to talk to them.
Some of those things that trigger negative emotions are so easy to solve and for whatever reason we just don't do it. I remember back on the days when I used to work in a marketing agency and all devs had to convert designs into email marketings campaigns. Designers used to include shadows everywhere and we devs needed to open photoshop and start removing them. It was so annoying until some day I called one of them and showed "Hey, look what happens in Outlook 2003". That was enought for all devs never having to open photoshop again and in the end designers had to start using other artefects which made the designs a look a lot better.
Obviously, I'm not saying you shouldn't ship stuff and just concentrate on please yourself. What I'm trying to say is that there's no point on be doing whatever you are doing if you are not having fun and since the goal is the journey, why not aim for a fun journey? If you find yourself in those situations, start by talking to others. It is likely that others feel the same and just haven't noticed yet.