TIL that it's normal to feel embarrassed by your code

POSTED ON: Dec 03, 2021

I love this quote from Amal Hussein:

if you wait till you’re not embarrassed about your code to show your code, you’ve waited too long.

Yeah, if you wait till you’re not embarrassed, then you’ve missed so many opportunities for early feedback, that could have maybe even made it better. Because that’s the beautiful thing about feedback - you always are in a better place because of it. The collaborative experience, even if it just shifts you by one degree, you are one degree better than you were without this feedback.

Via JS Party Podcast episode #201: The inside story on React’s all new docs

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