Ask HN: How do I get better at building stuff?
I'm 38 years old and have been doing software since I was 13. I've got a PhD in systems engineering and was in academia until a year ago, but I've only just realised I have always worked at the level where I got a codebase and improved it. I suck immensely at building stuff, I make it too complicated, I overthink, underengineer it. I know little about market fit, shipping product, etc and I...