Why Lana Del Rey Has Always Been My Software Engineering Hero

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Why Lana Del Rey Has Always Been My Software Engineering Hero

That’s right. You read it correctly. Read it again.
I vowed from the beginning of my software engineering career that I wanted to be like this: I wanted to be soft. I wanted to be gentle. I wanted to spread love. My sole purpose in coming into this industry was to spread love. And to save the planet. It feels good to come back to this purpose again. To come back to the softness and gentleness of love. After three years in this industry do I still believe in this? 

And the answer is yes. Yes. More than ever. More than ever. More than ever we need software engineers who are gentle. More than ever we need software engineers who are kind. More than ever we need software engineers who walk gently across the earth. More than ever we need software engineers who are soft and gentle and kind and who know how to care. Because caring means responding to the need of the moment - not imposing but listening carefully and gently. So when I was starting out in my career in 2023 I was obsessed with Lana del Rey. I would listen to “White Dress” on end. “Yosemite” was my software engineering anthem.

And I just listened to “Henry, Come On.” So yes. It feels good to be back where I belong. To put softness and gentleness first. To be soft and to be gentle. To put compassion and love for my colleagues first. Is anything more important than compassion and love for my colleagues, for myself and for all beings? Obviously not
I never want to put anything above my love for my self or others ever again
Ever ever again
Thanks 
A yellow wall with daisies painted on
Someone told me today that I was the least corporate person that they had ever met in their life, but in the best possible way. The corporate is cold and calculating, and that I was not. That to me is a compliment. I assume that means that I am warm and loving. Like the sun

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