Brian LeBaron

…e wheel, and writing. But we also believe that, as it is today, software is far too hard to create. Only a tiny fraction of humanity—people with abnormally high pain tolerance we call “programmers”—can create software at all, and, to be honest, no one is particularly good at it.

True confidence emerges when you consistently push-through things that suck. The longer you sit with the boredom, pain, and discomfort — and actually create something meaningful, the more confident and successful you will be.