Ask HN: How to deal with being overwhelmed when starting out

Re:Ask HN: How to deal with being overwhelmed when starting out by lifeisstillgood on Sunday March 03, 2013 @11:11AM (#5314166)

1. Everyone gets overwhelmed by the sheer amount of stuff we don't know. Look at it this way - when I started out I was seen as a bit of a JavaScript maven, and have just spent the last six months realising I was a decade out of date when I came back to it, and needed a lot of catching up

2. Mentors - I would ask on here for anyone who feels they can give a bit of time to keep you on track

3. What are your goals - starting a business, love the computer vision world and want more? Find one thing you love and can add value to and stick to it, give it a year if its wrong fine. But in that year you will learn a hell of a lot

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Re:Ask HN: How to deal with being overwhelmed when starting out by canibanoglu on Monday March 04, 2013 @09:32AM (#5318332)

I would love to have a helpful dev who can dedicate a small amount of time on mentoring me but I have no idea how to ask people for "donating" their limited time to me. But I can see how immensely helpful that could be.

Building a business is not what I want to do at this stage, I simply want to solve simple problems that I encounter in my life in a simple yet beautiful way. Maybe the business part will come later.

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