Resting on my Laurels

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Resting on my Laurels

In 2023, I gave a talk about my crazy breakthrough into tech. 
It was crazy. I gave the talk a year after I had started taking web development seriously - and it had been my job to train to do it for 9 months. It was a great talk. After the talk, the organiser came over to me and said "now it's time to rest on your laurels." Three months later while living my dream and researching AI every day 

I got laid off suddenly. It was a horrible time. I got hired into an AI team and that just shows you the magic and miracles of this universe - I manifested way harder than I thought I could've done. But AI was not meant to be for me. I transitioned into something
  • a frontend role - I can process frontend problems 10,000x better than I can do backend ones 
  • a team with more structure - more ceremonies etc. including daily standups - works much better for me as well
And I learned frontend from scratch having forgotten everything except the foundations of HTML, CSS and JS - my React all went and I had to learn it again

And it has been 8 months now but the real achievement is how I learn
And it's not even diagrams 

Here are all the treasures that are in my treasure chest 
And in my treasure chest they live

But like a princess escaping a tower and coming out into the world, I need to live, live, LIVE these methods 
A screenshot of a pinned slack message with bullet points reading calendar blocking, calendar event descriptions, verbose commits, partial adds, and now, (in italics) writing descriptions after events

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