Will start when I know it all

A lot of people get uneasy about not knowing something fully, and they stop themselves from attempting to solve problems.

I think this comes from our schooling, we're always taught to complete chapters or the syllabus before attempting an exam.

Most things in real life don't work that way because problems become harder. Imagine being tasked with growing a product and worrying about studying everything about growth first. It is not possible to know everything about growth.

Or imagine you want to build a simple API but do not attempt it until you know everything about the framework you want to build it in. Most likely you'll never complete your framework "coursework" and will never even attempt to build that API which you probably could've built without knowing much about the framework.

We should dive right into these problems irrespective of completing the "coursework". A better way to think about it would be that there is no coursework at all. Think of it as a user manual, dive into the problem, come back to the user manual if you get stuck.

Being a perfectionist is good, but if it comes at the cost of never releasing then it's killing you. Focus on shipping, then continuously iterating and making the end product more refined.

My biggest realisation at 17-18 years of age was that no one knows everything. They're just taking bets in the right direction, and learning on the journey. There is no coursework for life.