Abundance mindset (not LinkedIn cringe)

I speaking with someone about changing out an API key when he proposed two solutions:

1 - Go find one that’s been already made

2 - Make a new one

We made a new one because it’s much much faster. Finding one requires searching codebases, extraction, and maybe, even, dealing with people. It also could requiring verifying that there’s no pollution issues with reusing the old one.

All of which, especially people are slow. But creation? That’s fast.

So why would anybody even suggest reusing the first one?

Scarcity mindset.

The scarcity mindset is toxic for fast coding. If you suspect you have it, you must root it out, remove it, and develop the Abundance Mindset. Stop thinking everything is expensive and you must think hard about how to conserve it. Instead everything is cheap and you must instead think hard about how to lay it out cleanly so you can work quickly us…