Lesson #3: If Its Not Broke, FIX It!

This might be my biggest pet peeve.

Whether while working in corporate America or getting married, I could never sit and accept to do something just because its the way it has always been done before. I'm the type of person that constantly re-edits her photos for instagram (#noshame) even when #nofilter looked just as fine! I'm the type of person who believes that everything could always be improved upon. Now, do I believe everything should be improved upon? Absolutely not. Not everything is worth your time, energy, effort, and resources, and finding that balance is incredibly important.

"But where is the happy medium?"

I wish I knew! However, I do know this:

If our project was a home:

• There is a time to build.
• There is a time to decorate.
• There is a time to redecorate.
• There is a time to add an extra room.
• There is a time to rebuild completely.

• There is also a time to go on vacation.

You will go through every and all of these seasons. You've already started building your website. This week, you'll decorate it. Give it a week and you'll want to change your entire color scheme - and change it back the next. Maybe then, you'll add another page/component to your website. And when you've had enough, you'll scrap it completely and start building all over again. Take in all these seasons, for they will all teach you something beautiful.

One way of testing out the transitions of every season is through A/B testing. Its a term that is commonly used in software development for comparing different versions of a webpage or an app to determine which one performs better. I think this form of experimenting is what makes computer science (and other industries/environments that do A/B testing) incredibly exciting. Try things out, try it all out! Just because it works well, doesn't mean it can't work better (lol double negative)!!.

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