Technical Authority

It's an easy trap to fall in to... What do I mean by " Tutorial Purgatory "? This is when you end up watching video course, tutorial or reading up on a subject and putting off the "doing" part of it because you don't feel you know enough. It's very easy to get stuck telling yourself " I'll start after I finish this course - I'm still learning " I've been there and it's a hard situation to escape but it is possible and here are a couple of pointers to help you escape it. Udemy is a great perpetuator of tutorial purgatory with many courses being 10+ hours long, you end up feeling compelled to watch it before starting the project you want to work on. I've seen many Udemy courses hitting the 30+ hour mark. Can you imagine watching and working your way through 30+ hours of course content in your spare time after work? How long that would take you? And this is before you even begin working on the project or product you w...

Hope you've all have a great weekend! I thought I'd share this recent experience and deviate a bit from the technical side of things.  Currently I am working on creating a Udemy course and I'll tell you now, do NOT underestimate how much time and effort goes into filming!  Manged to put off starting it because I didn't like the amount of work it would involved to create it (TL;DR I was lazy). The best piece of advise I've heard for getting around this was: "Don't think about it, just do it" Sounds simple? It works surprisingly well, instead of thinking ahead of the big ordeal of filming and producing the content, don't think of all the work and instead jump right it and start. In the end I found myself really enjoying the process and where I was worrying about not having enough content for 30 minutes, I found myself hitting 6-10 minutes a lecture because I was passionate about the subject and kept riffing off with useful information.  W...