Lots of time spent reading today. And in the process found about thirty new books to read. Really enjoying swyx's book, it has branched off into so many topics that I want to take a deeper dive on.
One of the concepts in the book encourages the reader to learn in public. This has terrified me for a long time. I have always felt like if I showed what I was learning in public, people would look down on me for how little I knew, or would think that I wasn't a competent developer. I remember when Dan Abramov posted Things I don't know as of 2018. I admired his courage to be so vulnerable as a thought leader in our community with way more reputation to lose. And yet, I still did not feel empowered to do the same. In fact, I remember a principal engineer I worked with mocking him on Slack and musing about how someone who knew so little could get hired at Facebook. I am no longer scared though. A mixture of time, experience, and seeing others be courageous without it hurting their careers has bolstered my confidence.
Following systems over goals, I am working to build a habit to write daily. I have no aspiration to be glamorous. If it sticks I may invest some time making this web log nicer. I certainly have so many ideas to make it fun, but I don't want to be another built my shiny new personal log folks who never end up writing. So here is to 2022 and beyond!