Sometimes we stop because nothing seems to be happening for so long that there seems little point in continuing. If you've ever been on a diet you know that feeling. Initially you take off the weight pretty easily but at some point, despite your best efforts, you plateau. You eat right and exercise and you don't lose another pound. Maybe you even go up a little. You know that you should keep going but the voice saying "what's the point" inside you gets louder and louder.

YAGNI is the Extreme Programming acronym for "you aren't going to need it". Pronounced "yagg – knee", it is supposed to be your defense against implementing clever solutions that will complicate your code to make it easier to allow you to provide features that the client has not yet specified.

Do you ever take time to step back from something you do all the time and wonder "How did anyone ever think of that?"

If you lost your job today, what might you try next? What if you didn't lose your job, would you still try it? Sure, I don't know you or your job, but it may be a lot less secure than you think.