Joel P. Mugalu

one advice to software engineers of all levels, don’t get discouraged if the thing you are trying to build exists in some shape or form. And especially avoid googling or seeing how it is built. because the moment you do so you snap into the other person thought process and abandon yours. you get into problems that they were trying to solve which you may have never ran into to begin with. I often see some engineers especially seniors when they are told of an idea by their subordinates they quickly say “oh its been done before” or “oh look this github repo up its all there” do you have a slightest idea what this does to creativity? and even if you decided to still go on with your project and get “ideas” from that other project, your thoughts are contaminated, you will produce a similar, a clone product. where is the fun in that? Don’t even say “Im going to make it better” because that means you are starting where they left off. There is a saying in Arabic “to break one’s paddles.” Don’t kill the excitement and spark you have over that, you have absolutely no idea what it will amount to. Build it only to build it so you are lost while building it.