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I have a few hobbies...
Monday, April 8, 13
Like many devs, I didn’t start as a software engineer, but found my way to it after other successful careers as a lighting designer, professional poker player, puppeteer, and sous chef. I’m a
self-representing glass artist, I’ve published 2 role playing games, and on the weekends I’m either hiking or fixing vintage Vespas.
I tell you this not to make any pretentious claims to being amazing or talented, rather that I find myself frequently in a place of not knowing what it is I don’t know, of starting as a complete
Novice with nothing more than an interest and a passion for the topic at hand, and a willingness to slog through the often awkward process of learning something new.
That experience of being out of my element, in over my head, is scary, intimidating, and thrilling. As “Me high Chick sent me high-ee” put it in his book, “Flow”
"[Not all] experiences may be particularly pleasurable at the time they are taking place, but afterward we think back on them and say, "That really was fun" and wish they would happen again. After an
enjoyable event we know that we have changed, that our self has grown: in some respect, we have become more complex as a result of it."