Stages of Mastery 2008 Apr 29

After spending all day at work developing websites, I sometimes find myself coding more during my freetime as a way to relax. There are no tight deadlines, no clueless clients, no outdated legacy codebases, just a couple ideas I want to see come to life. As I work on my pet projects, I begin see what I’m doing not as a hobby per se, but as a craft. And with any type of craft–writing, playing a musical instrument, painting, mathematics–there are different stages that we go through as we advance and learn more.

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