The second question is more aligned to what we're doing. We currently interface with banks through a scraper. It's inefficient, slow and at risk of breaking when the banks change their interface.
To be clear - we provide this interface with the banks as a service to other companies who want to use the consumer's data inside the bank account (with their consent of course). A good example is a loan affordability calculation. Instead of asking a user to upload a bank statement, we provide the interface with their online banking profile which allows them to extract raw transaction data more quickly. We then send that data to the company is offering the loan so that they can make an affordability decision.
In our country there are other companies who do the RE method. I am not aware there is another way, other than scraping and that because our banks don't offer external API's.
There are other products that have done exactly what I described above. They have instant EFT solutions etc. So I'm almost certain there are developers who can do it locally. But that helps.
Completely agree with this!
One thing I like to do is break any task to smaller pieces and then achieve those goals.
There are some times when I'm really excited about something and can work days without any distraction (both work and personal projects) and it doesn't feel exhausting at all.
On the other hand, when it is something uninteresting, writing even 10 lines of code takes half a day to me. These are the times when I need the micro-goals the most. Just achieving these small milestones itself gets me on a roll to complete the bigger tasks.
One other big thing is making it a schedule. I used to hate working out and cut corners sometimes. But then I decided to go everyday for 1 week, then 2 weeks and checked that day off on the calendar. Looking at all checkmarks made me slightly uncomfortable when I felt like not going one day. Now it just doesn't feel like work waking up at 5am to work out. Its just become a habit. I've kind of removed the emotion of passion or excitement and do it because I have to do it. As dull as it sounds, looking occasionally in the mirror makes me happy to see what I've achieved, but I never think about that when I have to wake up.
I disagree with this. Passion is the outcome of ability and achievement not the cause. If you wait to be passionate about what you need to do you'll be waiting a long time. You need to do the hard work and then the passion follows, not the other way around.
> Passion is the outcome of ability and achievement not the cause.
I doubt that's the case. For one, there's plenty of people who are excellent at their jobs, but who dislike them. Also, there's plenty of people who are passionate about things that they are terrible at.
