At the DeepStation cohort, a co-attendee encountered GitHub for the first time. He said, unprompted: “I had no idea something like this existed — this is going to change how I work.”
It struck me that GitHub has been ambient in my life for so long I’d stopped noticing it as a choice. It’s just there, like email or search. But for someone whose work had never demanded version control, it was a revelation.
The takeaway isn’t “GitHub is great.” It’s that great tools stay invisible until the problem they solve has been personally felt. The moment that clicked — watching someone connect a real pain to a real solution — was a better reminder of what good tooling actually does than any documentation ever gave me.
This applies to the tools I build too. LogIQ won’t land until the person using it has sat through a painful enough incident to feel the gap. The job isn’t just building the tool — it’s building it for the moment the pain becomes undeniable.