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Strangely Enough, That's When Things Started Moving Faster.

The problems started the moment I began.

Unfamiliar words came pouring in.

HTML, CSS, JavaScript.

Server, hosting, domain, DNS.

Git, GitHub, deployment...

My head was spinning.

Why were there so many of these?

Ask about one thing, and two or three more unfamiliar words would spill out of the explanation.

At first, I tried to understand everything, one by one.

"What's HTML?"

AI explained.

"Hang on. What's CSS, then?"

AI explained CSS.

Then JavaScript would come up.

Ask about JavaScript, and something else would show up.

It never ended.

At this rate, I was going to spend all my time studying the web and never actually build the website.

So I asked AI.

"Hang on. Do I need to know all of this?"

"No."

"It's okay if I don't?"

"Yes. You only need to understand what's actually necessary."

Made sense, when I thought about it.

Driving a car doesn't mean you need to know how to build an engine.

You just need to know where you're going and how to drive.

Watching TV doesn't mean you need to know how to build a TV.

Why should a website be any different?

I wasn't trying to become a developer.

I was trying to build the website I wanted.

That's when I changed my approach.

When something unfamiliar came up, I stopped studying it first.

I started asking whether I actually needed to know it.

Strangely enough, that's when things started moving faster.