Slow, slow, fast

When I started my job at Epic, I felt like I was slow at everything -- debugging code, writing code, solving issues, you name it. I eventually got to be very fast, one of the top 100 MUMPS coders in the world, I used to joke. How did I get there? My need to provide good customer service (i.e. external motivation), patient mentors, a team willing to help me learn, years of practice, and a willingness to dig a little deeper in the code than most others.

So it goes with a new industry. I once again am slow, slow, slow at almost everything -- DCFs, reading academic papers, reading 10-Ks, assessing start-ups, writing anything. I have to keep telling myself: slow but quality now means fast and quality later. I hope writing here to a pseudo-public audience will grant me the motivation and the practice, however imperfect it may be.