Unparalleled Adventure

May 2021 – My last post, a ReactTS approach to dialogs. A lot in my personal life has changed. I married my beautiful wife, and we’re expecting our son shortly (actually by the time this publishes, we’ve had our son). In the tech boom I was able to change jobs, and grow my career. This change allowed me to open myself to new technologies and perspectives. In short, things are different, really different. As much as all of that is different, a lot is still the same. I’m still working in tech, I still love programming, and I can still lose myself in a coding problem. Most of all I still think teaching and sharing is the best way to concretely understand something.

It’s not unlike me to take long hiatuses from writing. Why? I don’t know, boredom, overwhelm, focus on other stuff? I think though, mostly it was the amount of time I was spending writing my posts. They took a long time, time that I just didn’t (don’t) have. Sometimes I would get consumed by the research, and making sure I was always factually correct (then not even post the thing!). Nothing I was saying could be wrong. Because if it was, it would mean that I was propagating misinformation on the web. :O (The Horror!) This also meant that permanently I was wrong, for everyone to see. This forced me to incessantly review over and over so I didn’t make mistakes. This was a fools earning, and ain’t nobody got time for that. The worst part was, I still made mistakes! Something I needed to realize was, I am human. This means I make mistakes, a lot. Everyone does. The difference that separates the new me from the old me, is that I’m able to embrace that. I don’t mind being wrong, because accepting being wrong is the best path to being right. I’m fully embracing the growth mindset, and that means that mistakes aren’t a permanent stain on my intellect. Rather, a unique opportunity for me to grow. So with that I’m going to continue to blog, with a refreshed view. I’m going to get stuff wrong, and that’s okay. I’m releasing myself of that burden. Phew. I can breathe.

The other thing about my posts is that some of them are too long. They just take too long to read, let alone write. Not that there’s not a lot of good information in them. They’re just too textbook-ie. Which, like me nobody has time for. If I can keep the posts short and sweet, and not care about how correct they are, then we’ll all win.

So here’s to a new beginning part way through 2023. To new, shorter posts, more sharing and more learning! I’m excited again for this journey.

Until next time – Happy coding!

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas A. Edison