Better hit the road like a wanted man

I need to stop blogging about my work at 1 am. Surely this has to be the truest thing any one has ever said? But I have a couple of things. I have a piece of paper stapled in my bag with notes from my manager today about breaking things down. She said that people often break tasks down for me (very kind and fair and true). I have never found coding difficult (as in syntax and fundamentals apart from objects which took years). I have never found product knowledge difficult. It is the part in between. 

As she said to me today: if we build a form it’s like okay let’s see it first. And let’s add some functionality to it. And then let’s save it and send it to the backend etc. (Mutations! GraphQL mutations, I see you.) and that I need to be able to 

- see the way people have broken down problems for me before

- see how they all fit together (I am better at this than people think honestly).

- then when I get similar problems but that are less broken down

Then I need to be able to break them down

Based on my past experience

That’s great feedback and super fair and accurate

It’s not about memorising the rules or react or whatever

It’s about practical software development 

But like bro

I have two main goals

Improve react knowledge 

Do tickets faster and more independently and be able to break things down a little more myself 

And I am continuing on my PR review journey it’s super mega exciting I have a plan