Put the phone away. Focus on the moment. You spent the last 4 weeks building up to this. Enjoy every bit of it.
No one is watching to see how often you post, when your last update was, or what the space in between is. They are waiting to see when you are coming back. Gaps aren’t from a lack of discipline or consistency; they emerge when we are overloaded. But they don’t rule us; they just wait for them to take them back.
We started the year with “AI is here”. Between April and October – “AI can do it all for you, and it’s coming for your job”. Between November and now – “Maybe it can’t do it all and don’t give it to the keys just yet.” We have proven that AI is a junior developer starting out in the world – they are here with all the excitement and anticipation of doing a great job,…
When you’re younger, everyone is pushing you to keep up It’s an all-out assault on the senses as every person you meet is giving you advice on what you should and shouldn’t do. There is a big push to keep up as there are invariably more people ahead of you then behind (its just numbers). Finding someone to keep up with is easy; even in professional circles, there are many, many places for you to…
Eventually, it will all break. Yes, all of it, everything will break. Someone will trip over a cord, a surge of power, a misplaced “.”, a bad line of code, whatever – it will all break. Or maybe it will simply be wear and tear and longevity. After 18 years, don’t you want a break from working 24 x 7, never stopping, never going on vacation, doing the job every day, that needs to be…