Stop Polling Your Own Progress

Description

The image is a screenshot of a post by verified user Steven Bartlett. The visible text says: "You wouldn't plant a seed and then dig it up every few minutes to see if it has grown. So why do you keep questioning yourself, your hard work and your decisions? Have patience, stop overthinking and keep watering your seeds." The sibling metadata caption frames it as "Some mental support for you this morning," making it a morale and mental-health post rather than a technical joke. For developers, the analogy maps well to long feedback loops in learning, career growth, refactoring, and project work where constant self-inspection can become its own productivity tax.