…is what Harry Potter gets told when trying to get to platform 9 3/4 for the first time. And sometimes, going at a higher pace and stop overthinking stuff is a great strategy when we’re under stress, uncertain of where we’re heading, or just getting started with new things. After all, there’s all sorts of walls to run into (or better: through) in life - DevOps itself has often been described as overcoming the wall between Dev and Ops - but there’s more: The wall between junior and senior, the wall between using and contributing to projects and communities, and so on. This ignite is about my personal experiences of doing ‘a bit of a run’ in different situations throughout my (short) career in tech.