I spent four years working with extremely talented people. We worked in pretty radical ways, but I was always pushing farther and challenging the “status quo” of what was already a fairly extreme way of building software. 1/?
I never felt like the experimentation and boundary pushing I was doing was all that radical. It was just a natural evolution of how we did things, perhaps even a bit more pragmatic. Definitely less dogmatic. 2/?
After a ton of conversations, interviews, and 3 months at another great, but different, company, I’m realizing just how radical my views on software dev are.
When you’re surrounded by greatness, pushing just a little further doesn’t seem like a big deal. 3/?