The 10,000 Hour Rule
In Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell popularized the idea that it takes roughly 10,000 hours of deliberate practice to reach world-class mastery in a field—a notion rooted in Anders Ericsson's research on expert performance. I track my coding hours as a rough proxy for that kind of deliberate practice.
My coding journey
2,034/ 10,000 h
7,966 hours to go
2.5k
5k
7.5k
10k
What I count
Focused coding: building, debugging, learning from docs and code. Not passive consumption. Same idea as in sports: deliberate practice, not just volume.
One visible trace
GitHub is one footprint of that practice. Here's the contribution graph.