<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Frustration on JErickson.net</title><link>https://jerickson.net/categories/frustration/</link><description>Recent content in Frustration on JErickson.net</description><generator>Hugo -- gohugo.io</generator><language>en</language><managingEditor>joe@jerickson.net (Joe Erickson)</managingEditor><webMaster>joe@jerickson.net (Joe Erickson)</webMaster><copyright>© 2026 Joe Erickson</copyright><lastBuildDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2019 13:43:16 -0500</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://jerickson.net/categories/frustration/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Don't fear the frustration</title><link>https://jerickson.net/dont-fear-frustration/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2016 07:51:44 -0500</pubDate><author>joe@jerickson.net (Joe Erickson)</author><guid>https://jerickson.net/dont-fear-frustration/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;ve always been a little more tenacious than most people I know, willing to spend the time to flail before making the breakthrough that gets the results I&amp;rsquo;m looking for.&lt;sup id="fnref:1"&gt;&lt;a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref"&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; I think part of that has to do with the fact that I do most of the flailing in private, at a computer where no one can point out my failures or see what I&amp;rsquo;m working on before it&amp;rsquo;s ready. But as I&amp;rsquo;ve taught other people programming over the years, I&amp;rsquo;m always surprised at how quickly they throw in the towel on problems that I know are solvable.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>