Do You Have A "Mayo" Problem?

Let me explain what the "mayo" problem is with a story. You are getting ready to make a sandwich and you start piling on your ingredients. You have the bread, lettuce, tomatoes, cold cuts, salt and pepper. And you think to yourself, the one ingredient that would finish it off is the mayo. You have some choices here. You can either grab the jar of mayo out of the fridge or you can grab the olive oil, egg yolk, mustard, and your lemon juice.

You grab your blender and you start mixing up all of the ingredients and you make this absolutely beautiful mayo and put it on your sandwich. It sounds like the perfect scenario

In all honesty, you could have just used the jar of mayo.

The reason is because you spent a lot of time pulling those ingredients together when the actually goal was to make a sandwich, not mayonnaise. Don't ignore the tools that make your programming journey easier because your job is to deliver results, not mayo.