We're at that time of year where everyone wants to start something new. We have a flood of articles and blog posts about "what I'm going to do differently this year" and everyone wants to [choose: lose weight, read more, get out of debt, get that new job, etc, etc]. If they're lazy, this urge will last about a week.. aka it's probably done by now. Alternatively, if they're motivated, they might make it to February.

At the end of the day, it doesn't happen because starting something new is HARD.

Alternatively, in software development, we're spoiled. We can write a single line of code and do some interesting things. If we add a framework, that single line of code is backed up by thousands.. and can do even more impressive things. At Twilio, it's cool watching someone get excited that their three lines of code just made their phone ring. Unfortunately, we can take this too far..