When You’re Feeling Down, You Might Miss The Fact That You Did Some Of The Best Work You Have Ever Done In Your Life

Because this has been me over the last year. I missed it. In my focus on the shortcomings.

On the huge huge huge knowledge gaps I had due to changing language and tech stack and jumping up at least one level if not more. On the accessibility issues I had for 3-6 months until we figured things out. I missed all the hard work. I missed the 365 blog posts only they were never blog posts.

A large number of them represented hours of self study or hard work or difficult conversations with my boss. Many of them were the results of countless hours of hard work and effort or hugely painful self reflection. So did I see it? Did I see my hard work that I did in 2024? Did I see my blog posts? Did I see how much Python I learned, how much backend I learned? Did I see how much I improved? I learned to review my PRs so beautifully. I vastly improved how I asked questions. I managed to reduce the frequency of my questions. I improved how I wrote questions too.

The backend is hard. Software is hard. Python is hard too.

Maybe a lot of people have been doing it too long to remember. I would like to say to Susanna in 2024 who sacrificed absolutely everything and left no stone unturned: well done. You smashed it. The results are going to come through now. You have it absolutely everything. There is nothing more you could have done. Thank you