El bebé de 20 meses cada vez tiene más autonomía, además supone un reto para él la realización de ciertas tareas. Es normal que quiera hacer cosas como subir y bajar escaleras sin ayuda, coger los cubiertos para comer o participar en las tareas caseras. Su equilibrio es cada vez mejor, su cuerpo cada vez se aleja más de las formas redondeadas y con pliegues de los bebés para ganar musculatura y estar más definido. La curiosidad es una de las características más destacadas de esta etapa. ¿Qué más cosas hará su bebés de 20 meses? ¿Cómo será su desarrollo?
Durante los primeros meses de vida del bebé es normal pesarle cada semana para asegurarnos que el crecimiento está siendo correcto y gana kilos de forma constante. Sin embargo, a esta edad, si el niño está en un peso normal, no es necesario ser tan estrictos y, sobre todo, no hace falta obsesionarse con la báscula y el metro, el pediatra podrá confirmarte si su peso es adecuado cuando acudas a la revisión de los dos años. ¡Apúntala en tu calendario y no te la saltes por nada del mundo!
El peso medio del bebé de veinte meses es de 11,8 kilogramos y su estatura es de 81 centímetros, pero depende mucho del peso y estatura al nacer, de factores genéticos y ambientes, de si es niño o niña o de si fue alimentado con leche materna o leche de fórmula. Lo mejor, si tienes dudas, es que consultes con su médico. Además, debes de tener en cuenta que el niño, al comer sólido y moverse más, cambia su ritmo de coger peso. ¡Gasta más calorías!
Su desarrollo motor progresa poco a poco. Podrás ir observando sus pequeños logros cada día. Ahora su equilibrio es mucho mejor y tiene más agilidad. ¿Has notado cómo corre sin miedo por el pasillo de tu casa y cómo juega a esconderse debajo de la cama? Otra cosa que le encanta es subir y bajar escaleras, aunque tú tengas el corazón en un puño porque se pueda caer.
Quizás se divierta también pegando con el pie una pelota, e incluso comenzará a intentar lanzarla al otro lado.
Eso no significa que aún logre lanzar una pelota con los brazos en alto, necesitará algunos meses más, pero intentarlo es el primer paso para lograrlo. Lo más importante como padres es que le motives y le ayudes a conseguir lo que se proponga.
Todavía no domina a la perfección la motricidad fina, pero ha hecho grandes progresos. Si le das un lápiz y un papel realizará garabatos y trazos de forma libre, también será capaz de comer mucho mejor con la cuchara y, por supuesto, dominará a la perfección comer con las manos.
Y, buenas noticias: tu bebé cada vez dormirá mejor. Las horas de sueño nocturnas se amplían y los despertares nocturnos tienden a minimizarse o desaparecer. Durante el día, tu bebé quizás se eche dos siestas, aunque poco a poco irá tendiendo a una sola (por la mañana o por la tarde). En total, tu bebé puede dormir entre 9,5 y 12 horas por día. ¿A que pensabas que este momento nunca llegaría?
Tu bebé es capaz de comprender mucho más su entorno y tus palabras, por lo que si vas a salir lo ideal es que le digas siempre la verdad.
No intentes engañarlo con la intención de que no se dé cuenta de que te has ido, porque realmente con esto solo conseguirás que su frustración aumente. Es mucho mejor explicarle la situación y despedirte cariñosamente: aunque la primera vez pueda angustiarse un poco, al ver que finalmente vuelves, podrá relacionar la separación como algo natural, por lo que la angustia será menor.
Aunque a veces creas que no, en realidad tu bebé comprende mucho más de lo que imaginas, por lo que es tiempo de comenzar a ser cuidadoso con las palabras que utilizamos delante de él o ella. Además, puede que tenga la gran necesidad de contarte todo lo que le ocurre, incluso aunque no se entienda gran cosa de lo que dice. Mantén una escucha activa para que se sienta comprendido, querido y reafirmado.
Poco a poco le irá interesando el juego con los demás niños. Aunque aún no es su prioridad, puede que desee interaccionar con más ímpetu que antes. Eso sí, deberás estar atento a su comportamiento porque está en una etapa de experimentación y puede que desee pegar o morder a algún niño simplemente para saber qué ocurre.
Si esto sucede, mantén la calma, no le permitas seguir haciéndolo explicándole tranquilamente que su acción perjudica a su amigo o amiga. Reaccionar con gritos u otro tipo de violencia solo empeorará la situación.
Cada vez desarrolla más interés por los juegos simbólicos, ya que su pensamiento lógico se está desarrollando ampliamente en estos meses. Por eso, le encanta jugar a comer, simular los ruidos de los animales que ve en los libros, imaginar que un objeto es otro que le gusta más o jugar a hablar por teléfono con diferentes tonos de voz.
Quizás empiece una etapa de exploración de sus genitales (algunos niños empiezan unos meses antes, algunos unos meses después). No hay que alarmarse con ello ni coartarlo, porque para ellos no es algo malo ni sexual desde el punto de vista adulto. Lo mejor es tomarlo como algo natural. Si no le das demasiada importancia, probablemente él o ella tampoco y pronto su curiosidad se centrará en otra cosa.
El bebé puede tomar ya todos los grupos de alimentos repartidos en cinco comidas: desayuno, media mañana, comida, merienda y cena.
Se recomienda el consumo diario de leche y sus derivados, así como frutas, verduras y pan. En cuanto al pescado y la carne conviene que al menos cuatro o cinco días por semana estén incluidos en su dieta, mientras que los huevos solo dos veces a la semana.
Es importante que tu bebé se mantenga hidratado durante el día, ya sea con agua y leche materna o leche artificial. Sin embargo, evita jugos procesados, gaseosas u otro tipo de bebidas, ya que contienen ingredientes nocivos y poco nutritivos. Evita también los jugos naturales en la medida de lo posible, darle fruta entera es un hábito mucho más saludable.
Trata de enseñarle a tu hijo a sociabilizar en la comida, permitiéndole acompañar a la familia al menos en una comida diaria. Esto fomentará una mejor relación con los alimentos, despertando su curiosidad por probar y disfrutar de ellos y haciendo que no se convierta en un niño caprichoso con la comida o picky eater.
Su vocabulario todavía es pequeño, por lo general domina unas 15 a 25 palabras.
Sin embargo, es en esta etapa cuando puede producirse un verdadero cambio en el lenguaje. Puede que comience a hacer pequeñas frases de dos palabras (quiero teta, quiero agua, mamá caca) y empiece a aprender aceleradamente nuevas palabras.
Además, cada vez sabe hacerse entender mejor señalando objetos o incluso llorando cuando no está conforme. Imita las palabras que oye a los adultos y en esta etapa aparece el ‘no’. Es una palabra que los padres oirán mucho a partir del 20 mes del bebé, ya que la utilizará de forma mucho más frecuente que el ‘sí’.
La reafirmación del ‘no’ es importante para el bebé, y aunque a veces pueda parecer extremo, permite la transición entre la pataleta del llanto al razonamiento, por lo que no trates de suprimirlo. Intenta aprovechar el ‘no’ para que empiece a aprender a expresar cuáles son sus necesidades y deseos con palabras.
Para ayudarle a mejorar su equilibrio, podemos realizar circuitos de psicomotricidad en casa para que suban, salten o pasen por debajo de elementos.
Juega con pelotas para pasárosla con el pie y las manos, construye un túnel con cajas para que se divierta pasando por debajo de él o crea un laberinto con sillas, mesas y demás objetos que tengas.
En cuanto al lenguaje, las canciones y leerles cuentos les ayudarán a ir ganando vocabulario. Es importante que hables mucho con tu bebé, de manera natural y sin utilizar palabras infantilizadas. Aprovecha cuando vayáis a algún lugar nuevo a enseñarle nuevas palabras y reforzar las que ya conoce o está empezando a comprender, señalando objetos, plantas y animales.
Es una etapa ideal para que empiece a relacionar las formas y los colores. Por ello, juegos en los que pueda apilar cosas de la misma forma y color son ideales. Le encantará apilar tarjetas con figuras de los mismos animales, formas geométricas o figuras con el mismo color.
Conviene que aprenda a recoger sus juguetes desde las edades más tempranas y lo convierta en un hábito. Comprar una cesta o caja donde colocarlos todos, le ayudará en la tarea.
Irán ganando autonomía y se empezarán a responsabilizar por sus cosas, además de ser de gran ayuda para las tareas familiares.
Puedes leer más artículos similares a Bebé de 20 meses. Desarrollo del bebé mes a mes, en la categoría de Etapas de desarrollo en Guiainfantil.com.
A partir de los 19 o 20 meses, la capacidad léxica de la mayoría de los bebés se acelera. Cuando descubren que el lenguaje es una herramienta fundamental para comunicarse con los demás, empiezan a manifestar un auténtico interés por expresarse. Aprovecha ese interés para estimular su comunicación verbal.
Tu hijo ya se entretiene mucho con los juguetes y practica el juego simbólico (juega a preparar la comida o a conducir un coche). Si le preguntas por uno muñeco determinado o un por un personaje de dibujos animados que conoce, los señala. Y obedece cuando le das órdenes sencillas como “estate quieto”, “ven conmigo”, etc.
Y es que su capacidad de comprensión es mucho mayor que su habilidad para expresarse, aunque está aprendiendo a hablar a gran velocidad.
Entre los 18 y los 20 meses, la mayoría de los niños aprende 10 o más palabras cada día. En pocas semanas, los pequeños pueden duplicar su vocabulario y pasar de utilizar 20 palabras a manejar 40. Pero, aunque dicen cada vez más palabras, generalmente no las unen en frases. Solo los más precoces combinan dos palabras como “quiero tete”, “más agua” o “no quiero”.
A esta edad, los bebés son como esponjas. Aprenden muchas palabras, incluso hasta dos o más al día, pero no siempre tienen claro su significado. Por eso, en ocasiones, hacen un uso un tanto sui géneris de las mismas. Es curioso que retengan vocablos poco comunes cuando todavía no han adquirido otros de uso cotidiano. Son contradicciones habituales en esta etapa.
Si quieres estimular a tu hijo para que desarrolle su comunicación verbal, háblale mucho y menciona el nombre de los objetos que le ofreces o le señalas.
No es conveniente que utilices un lenguaje pobre y demasiado infantil: no digas “bambam” por “pelota” o “guauguau” por “perro”. Aunque él se exprese en esos términos, es perfectamente capaz de entender las palabras correctas. Eso sí: cuando tu bebé te hable, aunque no le entiendas muy bien, préstale atención, ¡es importante para él!
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To put the idea of the article in a nutshell: sometimes it can be difficult to understand whether you are persistent or fell into the trap of sunk costs. I gave my current project twenty months, worked on it for a total of two thousand hours and “lost” two hundred thousand euros on my decision to do this and not something else. The project has not yet been completed. Under the cut – a story about how it was.
In early 2018, after more than a decade as a full-time developer, I was sick and tired of office intrigue and wasting time in meetings.
I really wanted to quit everything, become my own boss and leave my mark on the surrounding reality.
I was somewhere between a tech lead, a department head and a project manager, I got good money, had a lot of freedom in organizing work, managed a great team, in general, I had nothing to complain about. I myself decided how to build my working day or working week, participated in interesting and complex projects, and the team was wonderful … although I have already mentioned this. nine0005
And yet I was willing to sacrifice it all just to try something new on my own terms.
I had a colleague and friend who also wanted to create their own products, so we started brainstorming together. It took us some time just to search for That Same Idea (probably everyone knows about this anti-pattern). In the end, we managed to come up with two ideas that looked promising.
One of them was to develop digital products for schools to help them keep track of meals, payments, attendance and so on.
From what we saw with our own children, it was clear that there were real problems with this that needed to be addressed. There were a few competitors on the Belgian market, but not very many, and for our part of the country, none at all. In addition, we planned a completely different approach.
The second idea was to create a digital platform for restaurants where they could post customized menus, connect with their customers (e.g. send out special offers), build reputation and so on. nine0005
We started working on a product for schools. Since we are both full stack developers, there were no major technical difficulties. We discussed our idea with several schools. The people we spoke to were enthusiastic, but not sure they could get money out of the budget. In addition, schools belong to the public sector, which means that we still had to go through tender applications. It didn’t scare me too much, I spent enough time on the other side of the barricades, participating in the public selection of applications.
We firmly decided that it was worth trying. But after a while, my friend became doubtful and left the enterprise without even warning me. I continued to work, but I felt keenly that I was left alone on the ship. Bad feeling, I was disappointed. nine0005
After that, we had a conversation with another colleague who was also interested in joining us. This gave a new impetus, I believed that the three of us would be more likely to succeed. We decided to abandon the first idea and take on the second one.
This time things went a step further: we managed to get into the startup incubator. This gave us the opportunity to move forward, to draw up a business plan and so on. In the process, the idea changed its appearance several times, but we still started development. But then, unfortunately, everything went along the same lines: the development took more time than the partners thought, potential customers did not immediately catch fire with the idea. The partners quickly questioned whether we would be able to sell the product at all.
I’m not sure if they realized it or not, but their motivation and interest in the project dropped to almost zero; I tried to keep working. Finally, I realized that they were no longer in business, and I myself abandoned both ideas. I also lost motivation – it was difficult to come to terms with failure, and I again fell into despondency. nine0005
I think with the advent of COVID, the second product could become a star. But at that time, the people with whom we negotiated showed no interest. Traceability was a concern for them, and they wanted to keep the ability to evade taxes (I’m serious). So now we’ll never know how it would have turned out.
One way or another, I decided to realize another idea that I had – go freelancing. My goal was to keep the income at the same level and at the same time gain some free time. At first I thought that I could expand my horizons through consulting. So in January 2019I took a year off from my 10-year career as a full-time developer and started my own freelance business.
There was no particular risk in this: in the worst case, my plan would have failed miserably and I would have returned to my previous employer. I had already signed a contract with the first client (a small Belgian startup from FoodTech), and I was eager to fight.
However, after a few weeks my dreams turned into something like nightmares. I tried my best, but it just didn’t work out. I didn’t like the atmosphere, and the client wasn’t too happy with my work. The situation was getting tense. Three months later they refused my services. It was embarrassing and a little scary because I didn’t have any back-up plan. According to the last bill, by the way, they never paid me. Apparently, I will not see this money anymore. nine0005
It turned out that the company needed a certain leader who would be able to loudly declare himself and stuff like that. And I have always been a silent person, teamwork and a common idea for everyone about the project are more important to me, I do not strive to shout down others.
In general, my style of work, apparently, did not fit into the corporate culture.
I found the next client without much difficulty. By the end of April, I started work on another project and stayed there for several months. In short, everything went much better with him. nine0003
I was still haunted by the thought of creating my own products. These seemed to be the only way that suited me. I still think so. When you work for a company or freelance, you only make other people’s dreams come true. Money is, of course, good, but you can’t scale it in any way, and besides, you still remain “at the mercy” of other people. I didn’t want that anymore.
During 2019, I also worked on my book, and this also took a lot of effort and time – almost a whole year. nine0005
In May 2019, a former colleague introduced me to one person – her husband was a businessman looking for a partner for his new venture. Of course, I was interested in such a possibility.
He told me about the project and introduced me to the third future founder. They had been working for about a year and needed a technical director. The third partner left the case.
The goal was to create a SaaS (B2B) product that would help companies run meetings more efficiently. It didn’t sound very exciting, but I knew from my own experience how much time meetings can waste on everyone present if they are not properly organized. Therefore, the idea of changing the status quo seemed quite sensible. nine0005
In addition, the third partner was a lean consultant with a large list of potential clients, which made the project even more attractive. She did not work in the field of IT and, nevertheless, managed to create her own tool and methodology, which she applied with great success in her work with clients. So it was not about an abstract idea – there was a specific problem and people willing to pay for a solution. As you might guess, I was not slow to join them.
With my second freelance client, I agreed to a part-time job, so I was able to free up about two days for the SaaS project.
Not much, but it will do for a start. I was nervous, but at the same time I was in seventh heaven. This continued until the end of August.
In those first few months, I dived head first into the existing codebase, figured out the stack without too much trouble, did a GAP analysis, and helped put together a clear, workable roadmap for the development and security project. nine0005
The project used CouchDB because the idea was to stand out from the competition by implementing offline support early. I took it for granted and got to work. Very soon it became clear that the project needed to be rewritten almost from scratch. There were too many problems in the existing codebase, it was generally more like a proof of concept. We decided that we would do this work gradually, so that we would not have to demolish everything at once. Subsequently, it turned out that the decision was wrong. nine0005
So, between May and July, we figured out the user stories, made a story map, made a roadmap, and clarified the volumes of the minimum viable product.
I created a wikipedia, moved the code to a monorepository, created and cleaned up the backlog, and so on. Between July and September, I worked on this and that: the build system, Docker / docker-compose, continuous integration, authorization, software localization and the like. Also in September, we drove in a trailer through France – the last big adventure before COVID. But that’s another story. nine0005
In September, I started working on the project for a full week. It was a risky move for me and for the business – I lost income for several months, and expenses remained the same. But I wanted to speed up work on a SaaS startup. It annoyed me that we were moving so slowly.
We hoped to have the product on the market by the end of 2019. Unfortunately, it turned out, to put it mildly, otherwise.
However, from September to December, I enjoyed giving full time to the project. I was able to really focus on it, worked the way I liked (finally!) and felt that the process was going at a good pace.
I set up release automation, built infrastructure for selling (switched to Kubernetes, tried AWS, and eventually settled on DigitalOcean), implemented HTTPS support, implemented a basic search function, breadcrumb, logout, created a test dataset, a command line interface, and etc. nine0005
In December, my 800 page TypeScript book finally came out (it’s more of a brick than a book), so I took one thing off my shoulders and could spend more time with my family… and the SaaS project.
Unfortunately, we only got down to the screen with the meetings – the most important and the most difficult one – in December. Very late, but before we did not succeed.
By that time I began to have doubts about whether we had chosen the right approach and how effective it was. I was exhausted, but things went very slowly. And if you read people on Twitter, they will release the finished product in a month or three.
And I asked myself: “What are we doing wrong?” But I could not find the answer. nine0005
At the end of 2019, I had already spent about a thousand hours on the project, that is, the lost profit for me was one hundred thousand euros (that’s how much I would have earned during this period of consulting). And yet I decided not to listen to this inner voice and focus on the development of the project. It seemed to me that everything would pay off.
In January 2020, it became clear that we had a long way to go. There was still a lot of stuff left in the backlog (important functionality, bug fixes, serious security holes), so we pushed the release date to June 2020. My partners were more optimistic, but I was already well acquainted with the real pace of work and understood that this time would not be enough. However, we decided to strain and try. nine0005
In parallel, I tried to find a client for consulting for 1-3 days a week, but I could not find anyone who would agree to such conditions.
So I had to go back to work for the company part-time – that could be arranged, since I was going on parental leave.
I didn’t expect to have to go back to my old employer, and that hit my motivation hard. After returning, I lost my position, status, team and everything else. It felt like I was crawling to ask for help. nine0005
At my old job, I’ve become something of a firefighter who fixes complex technical problems. It was interesting, but also painful: I liked working in a team, and now I had to work alone for most of the year. And when the pandemic hit us, it got even worse … However, I shouldn’t complain: the salary was enough to live on, which the family very much approved of, and many had a much harder time.
At the same time, I tried this way and that to keep my enterprise afloat. There was little point in these attempts. I used all the energy I could muster, I gave up free time, games, whatever. I have become an automaton. Although I tried to maintain a healthy balance, COVID mixed all the cards.
And yet I managed to snatch time between the billions of working hours a week for board games. nine0005
Between January and July we didn’t do much for the SaaS project in terms of functionality. Things were slow and tedious. I began to question my abilities and the principle of work. I became more and more strongly in favor of reducing the scale and focusing on the main thing, but I still did not want to sacrifice the quality of the code. Not that I demanded too much in this regard, but it was unacceptable for me not to pay attention to it at all. Instead, I urged partners to give up, at least for a while, minor things – for example, offline mode (which we have already killed for a whole month) or support for mobile devices, which at first we could definitely do without. nine0005
We have come to the conclusion that the UI/UX of the product is very poor and will not impress users. This was primarily on the meeting screen, which was the most difficult. We decided to hire a UI/UX designer.
It cost us three thousand euros for five man-days. The price was reasonable, but the integration of the new design required changes in several parts of the system at once (we replaced Angular Material with Tailwind, created our own theme, refactored the data model and something else), and this, in turn, pushed the deadlines even further. … According to the total time spent, we allowed more than two months for everything, but the effect turned out to be excellent (even if we realized it a bit late). It was clearly the right move. nine0005
By June 2020, work on the minimum viable product was still far from complete. We never finished the meeting screen, and there were a whole bunch of other imperfections. We’ve rescheduled the release again, this time to September.
Throughout the year, our working conditions were constantly changing, and it seems to me that this is what hindered us the most. Speaking of myself, I worked on a SaaS project on Mondays and Fridays plus two more Wednesdays a month.
I had to switch between radically different tasks within one week, and it was very difficult, first of all psychologically. nine0005
At the same time, one of the partners (the one who develops with me) often turned to me for help on arbitrary days. Before taking on this project, he left programming for many years, so it was more difficult for him. This exacerbated the problem with switching between contexts even more. Several times a day I had to leave what I was doing to help him get off the ground, which made life even more difficult.
Of course, one cannot judge one-sidedly here: my partner has the most experience in business, marketing and sales and an impressive network of acquaintances, so he is also not deprived of strengths. nine0005
However, I was responsible for all the technical issues, patch management, bug fixing, security, documentation, backlog management, projections, and so on. It turned out a lot of things, and this definitely influenced the timing of the release of the product.
The NoSQL database took us a lot of time, and now it’s crystal clear to me that I shouldn’t have messed with it for the offline idea. In the end, this could be achieved with the help of other solutions. By that time, we had already postponed offline until future releases, and our data model was highly relational. There was no longer any reason to cling to her any further. It only slowed us down, complicating all operations. nine0005
Nevertheless, we decided to leave it, believing that the resource costs for the transition to the classic RDBMS would be critical and throw us too far back. I can’t say with certainty what is more reasonable in this situation: to spend more time on changes for the better with the hope that they will save us time in the future, or to continue to implement functionality with a fight, risking a slow pace of work … We chose the second path – not I know if this decision was for the best.
Next, we went all out, implementing authorization, setting state machines for different concepts (since meetings have a certain life cycle, and we think this is very important from an organization point of view), implementing validation and various features within the application – text formatting, export to pdf and so on.
But the minimum viable product could not be brought to mind! But we have already cut it to the maximum.
At the same time, the funds in the company’s account were melting like Olaf in the sun. Month after month passed, and little by little the doubts returned. Although we have achieved a lot in some aspects, it seemed that the work was moving unbearably slowly. nine0005
Somewhere in October 2020, we began to look where we could get funding. We thought about whether to take a loan with 50% insurance from the European Investment Fund or maybe try to get money from the regional or national budget. We applied to the bank, made an application for financing from the regional budget, and so on, but so far nothing has passed.
Unfortunately for us, due to COVID, the customers we counted on the most (hospitals) are clearly not able to take the time to integrate our solution right now. That is, even if we prepare everything for them, they themselves will not be ready.
Therefore, I had to look at other segments of the audience and reconsider the scope. This prompted us to outline for ourselves the “next” release, which will have enough functionality to persuade other customers to buy the product. But at our current speed, such a version will be ready by the end of 2021, assuming we continue to work half a work week. nine0005
In light of our doubts about the pace of development and the state of the market, we began to look at other methods of bootstrapping. Now we are considering whether to start with a service model to gain time and warm up, and then move on to SaaS. But so far this is only at the level of an idea. It’s all pretty hazy.
And now, the beginning of 2021, another thousand hours spent, which means two hundred thousand euros of lost profits, and I am still working on this project, instead of doing something else … And the project does not even have a chance to enter the market in foreseeable future. nine0005
To date, I have invested two thousand hours into the project, and this figure seems huge.
I’m almost ashamed to think how little we can charge for such a cost. Maybe this is normal, maybe not. I honestly tried my best, but sometimes it feels like I know nothing and am not capable of anything in my profession (hello impostor syndrome, how I missed you). I worked hard, sat on the project at night and on weekends, trying to speed up the process, but it still turns out slowly. nine0005
By now, my company’s bank account has clearly gone negative. She won’t even last six months. I’m all exhausted from stress (although I’m still able to put on a calm face and smile). I continue to work part-time and will probably stay that way for most of the year. It would be great to dump all these obligations into yourself and give all the time and effort to the project, but so far it will not work. There is a long, gloomy road ahead, and I am still not sure of anything.
We may have decided to leave the NoSQL database in vain. Perhaps the whole thing undermines the need to be torn between contexts.
Maybe I’m a bad developer. Perhaps we are not paying attention to that. Maybe I’m being overly concerned with the quality of the code. Maybe I should have quit a year ago. Maybe we need another programmer. Maybe, maybe, maybe. nine0005
Part of me is determined to continue. Firstly, because I still believe in the team and that the product is really needed and able to help teams and organizations work more efficiently. Secondly, because I still have a lot of energy, and I don’t have to persevere. I can’t stand leaving halfway. Finally, I’ve already put so much time and effort into the project; if you quit now, it will turn out that everything was in vain.
And here I sit with my doubts, a lot of lost money, a lot of work ahead and a complete lack of confidence in anything. I feel like I’m in a vicious circle. To quit means to lose and, perhaps, to miss something important. On the other hand, to continue is to potentially fall into the sunk cost trap with the risk of losing even more.
I don’t know the right answer, and no one does. Both scenarios are very real. nine0005
Sorry, I deceived you: there is no conclusion to this article. There are not even any specific questions (except for those that are spinning in my head like a broken record). This is just my story, not complete, but in an abridged edition.
Here’s the odd thing: In 2020, I spent a lot of time blogging as well – taking the opportunity to talk about what I learned while working on a SaaS project, and even made about a hundred dollars from it. There is nothing special to brag about, but it brightened up my year. Maybe it was this experience that prompted me to take on a new book. Maybe it’s an inner voice telling me: “Enough! Let’s try something else!” Or maybe I just like sharing knowledge and helping people. That would also explain my penchant for counselling. Although I don’t know. I do not know anything. nine0005
It’s two o’clock in the morning, it’s already Monday.
And on Mondays… I work on a SaaS project. This is what I will do, because I have not yet decided, although the pressure is powerful. Perhaps at the end of 2021 I will update this article with a story about how we conquered the market. And that’s all for today!
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