Discussion on: What bad habit do you have because you learned an approach *before* a better idea came along?

Took me TOO long to realize that collaboration was the opposite of a burden.

Being successful for years creating solutions and solving programming problems myself blinded me to the much more powerful sustainably productive outcomes of working with others.

I really think a "collaboration first" mindset is how we will survive and thrive in the increasingly competitive technology field.

I took a stab at explaining the mechanics of successfully doing that here “Eight Principles of Effective Collaboration” by Frank Font link.medium.com/Kn5yWgpos7