From “It Works” to “I Understand”
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Hello World! I’m Synnaulaid — though you can call me Syn. Some people jokingly call me “the Pathetic Man who lives surrounded by screens and lines of code.”
I used to measure progress by whether my code worked or not.
But over time, I realized that “working” isn’t the same as “understanding.”
And that gap becomes very obvious when things go wrong.
So I shifted my focus from building fast to learning deeper.
Here’s what triggered that change: From “It Works” to “I Understand”
