Author: Andrea Grassi

In software development it’s quite common to think “I finished” and then discover that you’re far from finished. You still have to polish the result.

And the funny thing is that finishing the last part of the work, that 5 or 10%, is much more difficult requires more focus and attention because you need to polish things up, to be precise, to look out for small errors only the best users would find.

It requires people to think outside the box, to imagine where they could have put an error, what could go wrong, to make it pretty and respect the work and effort the designers put into the prototype so that it can become pixel perfect.

Going from 90% to 95% is an astonishing work, going to 99% is even more beautiful and challenging and it’s what makes software development so difficult.
You can settle much more early than 90% and feel like you’ve finished. The hard part is keeping up with the schedule and deliver at least a 95%.

What’s important requires you to not multitask. What’s important requires you to focus, to stay in line and work hard.

What’s not important can be multi-tasked in the illusion of “I can do this together”.
What’s not important will take your time but give nothing back.

What’s important will ask for your full attention while what’s not important needs only a part of it.
And that small part is enough to steer away from the important things.

The things you should do, the things that make the difference.

Focus, instead of multitask.

When we’re children we don’t have issue, fears, we smile looking at what we like and keep going.

This is what we should strive for in the rest of our lives.

I came to love analog photography. It has a much more refined look, pictures always tell a story because it’s hard to shoot them.

Analog photography is a way to make memories because you think about them and you create the moment.

Today marks the day where the britain gets out of the EU. Which is not a real surprise.

What’s a surprise is that the majority of the young people voted to stay in the EU, while the older voted to exit from it.

My question is: Who should we trust? The young or the old? The wise or the excited.
Although I feel like I’m on the young side I wonder if the front that choose the exit has some more knowledge, foreseeability or something like that, that we should be aware of.