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Why You Should Probably Stop Follow Your Passion

Kind of strange title for a blog which aims at motivating people to learn, isn't it? But I really think that passion is not moving people forward much. Passion is unstable and inconsistent. It can be helpful on first steps but after that, it leaves you with yourself. What Is Passion To avoid any misunderstanding I want to define what I mean when I say "passion". I personally, see passion as an imaginary friend that I think will do much of the work with me. When you just starting out, it's really great to have that one friend because you think that you can move heaven and earth. But with time passion leaves and you don't feel like doing anything you started with it. Look at this as walking with someone arm-in-arm. You two maybe want to move with different speed, but often this speed defined by the slowest one. And it's sad to admit, but passion is slowing down every day, and one day it just stops. But how to overcome this? How to keep you doing what you was so ...

How To Get an Idea For an App

There are two common problems in software development, lack of knowledge and lack of ideas. For today's post let's consider the second one. Lack Of Ideas Suppose you have, decent skill in software development, so what other you need to start developing software? Right, the Idea (and IDE of course).  So where do you find them? This question is often the main struggle for many software developers. Common Pattern Look at apps on your smartphone. What is common between all of them? Yes, they are all some way useful, not productive, though, but useful. An app should be useful It's surprising how many devs don't understand that. Every app is useful in its own way. Some app lets you manage your personal finances, some helps you with time management, there are a bunch of apps that let you stay connected with friend and family (e-mail/messenger apps), and some of them help you avoid boredom (I still have Flappy Bird installed for the emergency case). So most of the apps (not onl...