HuntYourTribe: How it all started
Programming and software development have been the heart and soul of my daily professional routine for a decade now. “Monday blues, Monday again”, I often hear this whisper at the start of the week in our bay, while I have always been anxious to start the process of software development after the weekend break with my tribe. Yes, the process of software development with my tribe, who don’t care about Monday or Friday, who are curious to learn from my project, peers, OSS, or from the world.
Software development as a standalone, to be frank, is dull. Sitting in front of a laptop for 8 hours writing Ruby or Python code doesn’t seem exciting long-term. There is only a finite syntax for programming a language. Maybe 1000 rules. But what motivates me as an engineer is the product ideas that come out of it, deadlock, race conditions causing servers to hang, problem statements that end users are experiencing in their real life, so I can hand over digital solutions that could aid or alleviate user problems. These all make sense short-term term like an aspirin shot.
I believe peer-to-peer learning has always been my vital vitamin that has made me confident, elastic, resilient in this industry for a decade now and years to come.
