James King

Same drills this coach ran with his high school team.

Same drills the coach ran with his rec team, you know, five, six, seven-year-olds.

Now, yes, Kobe was doing it at a higher level, but same concept.

So the coach went up to him and go, you're one of the greatest out here.

Why are you wasting your time with the basics?

And Kobe's response was, I am one of the greatest because I focus on the basics.

Definitely.

And then the last advice I would get is even if you have a complicated project, cool.

Break it down in chunks.

As we always say, best way to eat an elephant, one bite at a time.

I remember my first large-scale coding project I did.

all custom code and stuff.

I was like lost.

I was like, what, like, how am I going to do this?

This was a room with three projectors, 20 different locations.

Electrons could be plugged in, two different electrons, a lot of routing.

At first I was like,

need to turn on the projectors i know how to do that so i coded that first and then just you start adding to it and it's like a snowball effect you add a little bit here a bit here and all of a sudden you got this big snowball or this big program or the other uh something they're talking about is the flywheel you know you turn the flywheel you're turning and turning and then all of a sudden it gets going

Well, what got it going?

Was it the first push?