Why Does It Work?
Picking up new technologies or tools is work. Even if it’s going to save us time and effort down the road, sometimes that future promise is not enough to overcome the present pain. To do so, one needs either motivation or shortcuts. Presumably you had the motivation. Others aren’t going to be as motivated as you. It’s not their fault; they just don’t have your drive. In absence of that drive, you need to be their shortcut.
Think back to your journey across the learning curve for the tool you are pushing. Remember when you knew it wasn’t working because you didn’t know the right syntax or forgot an option, but when you tried to Google how to fix it, you couldn’t properly formulate the right query? At that point, you had two options: ...
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