I took a walk with my two young boys the other day and they spent a few moments throwing stones into the lake nearby, as young boys do.
I watched my two-year-old picking up stone after stone and flinging them as hard as he could into the water. He would get excited when he got a big splash. But he never quite made the connection that a bigger stone means a bigger splash.
Despite this, he kept eagerly leaning over and grabbing stone after stone and energetically throwing large and small stones into the water.
As he is unaware of the workings of physics so also we may be unaware of all the ins and outs of some of the work we do.
As we grow up, we want to be more efficient, but I think we should work to never lose this child-like ignorance when it can benefit us in this way. My son was doing the work and letting the results happen. Because he was tossing stone after stone, he had many moments of big splashes, but he had many more moments of little, forgettable splashes. But he kept throwing and he got plenty of big splashes.
Always create. Keep building new projects even when you don’t know how they’ll turn out. Keep building and keep shipping. We don’t have all the answers and you never know when you’ll get that big splash, so keep picking up stones!