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by al_borland 606 days ago
Not everything is going to be a massive problem. Build the muscle on some of those things you think are low impact. This builds the habit and some bigger things will jump out in time.

You also may not know the real impact until after you do it. I made some stupid little tool to help people parse/format text, because one or two people at the office would always ask me for help. I thought those two people might use it a few times per week. I was wrong. It was used by about 150 internal people, thousands of times per week. I saw people using it during their sprint demos to fix up text before doing whatever they were looking to demo. I even had people show it to me as something I might find useful, and I then had to tell them I was the one who wrote it.

In terms of thought process. I get frustrated by things I think are stupid and needlessly annoying/difficult. So when I see something I think is stupid or harder than it needs to be, I try to make it easier and less stupid. Little things can add up to make a big difference.