Susanna Codes

What Taylor Swift can teach me about software engineering I mean so much Be yourself Follow your passion and you will succeed Give it everything you’ve got Don’t care what anyone else thinks about you But more importantly so: The haters gonna hate hate hate Taylor Swift’s arguably most popular and widely regarded as greatest album Reputation was released at a time when the whole world was laughing at her I know what it feels like not to be seen and valued and appreciated for your talents  Taylor Swift kept on going at a time when the tabloids were mocking her, the Grammies were shunning her and the world was laughing at her Because I know that I have demonstrated true passion I have kept going in the absence of positive feedback I have kept going even in the presence of negative feedback If you want to find passion  Come and find me I know passion I eat it for breakfast 

Why I’m like Malcom Reynolds In “out of gas” in “firefly” they show Mal being offered beautiful spaceships and he goes for a ship that’s falling apart Why? Because he loves her I could be so rich and so senior I could’ve made a career in HR I could’ve stayed in product management Instead I chose to sacrifice my life and sanity  In software engineering And stay junior for a very long time Why? Because I love it Thank you

Oh, honey, I'll come get my things, but I can't let go  Another disaster. I still can't get things right. I hopefully will see one day that all of these struggles with focus and prioritisation will mean that one day I am the most focused and prioritised engineer ever  Today's disaster is about focusing efforts  What do I focus  What is within my control What is out of my control  I have a React learning plan, I need to stick to it  I have added notes on how to read, how to know what to read, what to do more in depth and what to do more lightly  I have added a note to switch to CSS when I get tired of logic (so far so good - I love logic) Tickets  I suppose that this is hard for me but I must always always prioritise tickets  Always always always over learning most probably  Always over practise tasks  Definitely over people and culture stuff that I do  Bro I am not getting paid for it  I'm not doing that anymore anyway...