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Want to add that the shortest path is only obvious from hindsight. And someone's shortest path maybe shorter than yours. Incremental iteration seems all the rage nowadays, but it didn't take one's taste and experience into account. If one's shortest path is long and winded, no amount of iteration will bring you to any sorts of local optima. The ultimate judgement is whether the things you built is getting use. If a tree falls in a forest and no one heard it, it didn't make a sound. It doesn't matter your code is good or bad. Build a mental map that leads you to building things useful