How Cricket Taught Me Patience as a Developer

I like cricket partly because you can't hurry it along. You can want a wicket as much as you like; that doesn't make the next delivery a good one.

Debugging brings out the opposite instinct in me. Change something, refresh, change something else. It feels busy, but I've often lost track of what I'm testing by the third attempt. Writing down one thing to check is a useful way of slowing myself down. I'm still better at recommending this than remembering to do it.