Jitendra Vishen’s Reviews > Apprenticeship Patterns: Guidance for the Aspiring Software Craftsman > Status Update

If you’ve never fallen on your face, odds are you haven’t attempted anything worth a damn.

- Christopher Hawkins, “So You Want To Be a Software Consultant?

Most teams are not hyper-passionate or overly enthusiastic about technology. Predictably, they are focused on delivering the next project or improving on the aspects of the development life cycle that are causing them pain. Therefore, enthusiastic apprentices can often succumb to the urge to fly under the radar. They either repress their enthusiasm altogether, or allow it to manifest only outside of their day jobs.

In order to climb, you must leave the sure footing, letting go of what you already do well and possibly slipping downward into a ravine. If you never let go of what you already do well, you may continue to make steady progress, but you’ll never get off the plateau.

It is possible to learn a language on your own, but it takes a long time to learn the spirit of a language unless you interact with experts.

Apprentice means having the attitude that there’s always a better/smarter/faster way to do what you just did and what you’re currently doing. Apprenticeship is the state/process of evolving and looking for better ways and finding people, companies and situations that force you to learn those better/smarter/faster ways.

Long time back when i had started my work as a software engineer, i spent endless hours to solve programmatic problems. Every solution kept me energized to solve the next one.. over the time i lost interest in solving programmatic problems and i became manager. Now i solve different sort of problems...