If you quit, nothing will change.

It will just stay broken.

During regular office banter this week, one of the managers of the company we share office space with quipped that if they left today nothing would change, but if the developers quit, “everything would just break”.

I found that interesting because the truth is that, if the developers quit, then nothing would change at all; instead all the problems that have not been solved, would just stay broken.

As business owners, developers and designers, it’s natural to have thoughts of running away, building a hut on an island and selling coconuts without the stresses of everyday life.

I think that it’s easy to forget about the importance of solving the issues the way we do on a daily basis. It’s our job to take problems and create graceful, useable solutions that make people’s lives easier, which simplify tasks and allow them to be more creative with their time so that they don’t just quit too.

If we all quit today, if we all decided to put our tools down because we felt it all got too much, we'd all end up with those same issues that we neglected to solve, and when I think about my ‘job’ in that way, it’s enough inspiration to continue to create the best products I can and innovate in a space where the talk of market saturation seems so prevalent every day.

Here’s to not quitting.