Scoping Down & Scaling Up
I began my career-change journey into software engineering over 7 years ago. I took a risk and used the remaining moments (moduloMoments) of my days to start studying front-end development at Udacity. Then I decided to go all in and attended Hack Reactor and it paid off. I couldn't be more grateful for the jobs, projects, and co-workers that I've met along the way and where I am now.
New Focuses
While on this journey, I neglected this blog to the point that it recently went down when it's previous hosting platform was acquired. This prompted me to pick up not where I left off, but where I am now.
In the coming months, I'll be attempting to share lessons I've been learning through articles that cover three main areas:
- Code
- Communication
- Career
At my current company, I'm deep in the weeds in a hybrid role where I get to contribute to a huge codebase, communicate across multiple contexts, and lead people entrusted to my care.
New Technology
Since this site went down, I also got to do the fun work of upgrades and code migration. Over the past couple of days, I upgraded to the newest versions of react and next.js, fixed all the breaking changes, updated the content a bit, found a new deployment host with Vercel, and converted the site to Typescript.
New Theme
While it was really fun to update the blog, I'm even more excited about the new sub-heading, "Scoping Down & Scaling Up". I plan to write in more detail on this theme in particular. In my career, I have found it easy to be like an athlete who overtrains. We tend to take on too much, get injured, or burn ourselves out.
Instead of massive scopes, projects, and goals, I have found that focused, scoped-down action has been key to my most successful endeavors. When I isolate small scopes and act on those, this is when I have seen impacts that scale well beyond myself.
I'm excited to have a "new" place to reflect and share, and for those who engage, I hope you come away a little richer or at the very least with better questions.