The best advice I've been given was simply encouragement from friends and colleagues when I was deciding whether to leave uni. This encouragement was a key part of why I made the decision, and I wouldn't have been able to make it without this support.
I can't really pin down specifically any short, snappy piece of advice, but I do have a quote I love: "Unless someone like you cares an awful lot / Nothing's ever going to get better, it's not." (from The Lorax by Dr Seuss). Every time I look at things that suck, what I really see is that no one has cared about this problem, and it needs someone to care for it.
This leads me to start a lot of projects to fix things that then don't always get the follow-through that they deserve, but part of that is that there are always more problems to solve. My hope with projects is always to kick-off the process of getting other people to care about them. The Importer is along these lines; it's been neglected for so long, and my hope is that working on it will draw other people to it to continue to improve it even after I've moved on.
Good question, although hard to answer.
The best advice I've been given was simply encouragement from friends and colleagues when I was deciding whether to leave uni. This encouragement was a key part of why I made the decision, and I wouldn't have been able to make it without this support.
I can't really pin down specifically any short, snappy piece of advice, but I do have a quote I love: "Unless someone like you cares an awful lot / Nothing's ever going to get better, it's not." (from The Lorax by Dr Seuss). Every time I look at things that suck, what I really see is that no one has cared about this problem, and it needs someone to care for it.
This leads me to start a lot of projects to fix things that then don't always get the follow-through that they deserve, but part of that is that there are always more problems to solve. My hope with projects is always to kick-off the process of getting other people to care about them. The Importer is along these lines; it's been neglected for so long, and my hope is that working on it will draw other people to it to continue to improve it even after I've moved on.