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About the things to come |
2017-06-11 |
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So here we are. I am sitting here and finally updating this whole thing, hoping that jekyll will high-five github pages when I push the commit and a beautiful post will appear on the blog.
I don't have anyone to write to and I don't have people reading me. Which is fine. The motivation behind starting to write again is many-fold nontheless. The first trigger was that I also had to start writing for my current employer (Sensent) in English. Man, was that some clunky shit to start with. I used to like writing. I think I might have been good at it (in my mother tongue at least, which is Hungarian - linguistically in a different solar system compared to English). And now I struggle to write words after words. Trying to sound professional. Trying to find my voice. After several posts and papers I realized that my writing muscles have gone weak.
I need to exercise. This is happening right now.
The second part of the equation is about tackling the amount of information, that I need to deal with in a daily basis. I, too, read blogs, books, listen to countless podcasts each day, go to conferences and even - I know, this is hard to believe - come up with my own ideas. Getting the most out of this heap of information is hard. I remember reading not long ago the fine book by Ben Horowitz, "The Hard Things About Hard Things". I remember devouring it in a weekend and meanwhile thinking
"I'm gonna try the shit out of these things. This is great. Just wait till I get to the end."
I don't remember half of it. Okay, I'm sure everyone has some kind of mechanism of creating notes of every single important thing they learn, but I don't. Or coming to think of it, now I have. Yay, me!
As I mentioned earlier, I like writing. I always have, I suppose. So why miss the fun, when you can have it? The only thing I need to learn now is to be good at it in a different language I use all day. Piece of cake, eh?
So during a week I work and read and learn and go on cool dates with my SO, so every minutes seems spent from the get go. Nevertheless, I have around a zillion project ideas. Perfect shiny project ideas I can start writing code for. Put them here on github and then proudly salivate over them. So if I'm able to create the right structure for everything I imagined doing (harsh prediction: which I won't be), you'll see some posts describing my personal projects. Such fun.
Even though our marketing guy is not my real mom, he does not let me use gifs in corporate blog posts. It makes me sad, because it was really hard for me to start writing professional texts in a foreign language and these images helped me build cohesion and give a unique character to the whole post at the same time.
Anyways. Here, I can do whatever I want.
Again: yay, me. ;)