Chapter 3Motivation
Regardless of how skilled you are, if you’re not motivated to write code, get out. Accountants might get through writing up a spreadsheet just fine without motivation; a cashier can get by his day without passion. But unmotivated developers kill a software project.
Motivation must be sustainable. It must be unearthed and cultivated continuously throughout development. What keeps you coding with passion at the beginning of a project might not be your source of inspiration at the finish line. Different things can get you going at different points in the process of building software.
Sustaining motivation isn’t unique to software. We see it all the time in the media. The star athlete who signed the big, multimillion-dollar ...
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