We in Frost Innovation have created the last couple of years what possibly might be the best
Ajax Framework on this planet and during that period there's a lot of really interesting things I've realized. The most important one being;
Do only the stuff you want to do most badly! The reason why I say this is because I've experienced that if you do what you want to do the most, you will outperform every other living being being on this planet! It is in fact inevitable! If you do only what you truly want to do you will release a lot of hidden powers and you will not mind or get tired from working 120 hours per week and you will seek perfection in the codebase etc. All of the things needed to create truly greatness! If you don't work with the stuff you most badly want to work with you're going to be tired after a 40 hours week, you'll settle for "god enough" in the codebase and your mind will not sub-consciously seek to master and solve all the problems needed to create true greatness. I wrote another blog about among other things also this theme over at my other blog for those interested;
The 10 Commandments of Programming [7 actually] I'll repeat the rule here one more time for you to digest:
DO ONLY WHAT YOU WANT TO DO! ;)