TITLE: There Is No Step Two, But There Is A Step Three
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: December 08, 2020  2:06 PM
DESC: 
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BODY:
 In
<a href="https://mailchi.mp/76b1b7ce5438/29-patience">
   a not-too-distant post</a>,
 Daniel Steinberg offered two lessons from his experience knitting:

<blockquote><em>
 So lesson one is to start and lesson two is to keep going.
</em></blockquote>

 This reminded me of Barney Stinson's rules for running a marathon
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_-RDyxaJ1E">
   (10s video)</a>:

<blockquote><em>
 Here's how you run a marathon.
 <br/><br/>
 Step 1: Start running.
 <br/><br/>
 &lt;pause&gt;
 <br/><br/>
 Oh, yeah -- there's no Step 2.
</em></blockquote>

 Daniel offers more lessons, though, including Lesson Three:
 <em>Ask for help</em>.  After running the New York Marathon with
 no training, Barney learned this lesson the hard way.  Several
 hours after the marathon, he found that he no longer had control
 of his legs, got stuck on the subway because he could not stand
 up on his own, and had to call the gang for help.

 I benefit a lot from reading Daniel's blog posts, and Barney
 probably could have, too.  We're all better off now that Daniel
 is writing for his blogs and newsletters regularly again.  They
 are full of good stories, interesting links, and plenty of software
 wisdom.
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