How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Trust My Understanding Of Design

Life changes you, you change as your life unfolds. One day you're happy to apply your knowledge for a salary during a 9 to 5, giving enough to get your tasks from one side of the board to another while knowing your life is what happens between 5pm and 2am; the next you wake up and all the 9-5s are how you spent every day and the nightly adventures are what you remember but you know you spent the days making other people money.

So you switch it up, listen to the cultural moment and decide the best thing is to invest your skills into building your own product, but as soon as you start you realise the absolute shallowness of your skills, and how big a goal you've bitten off. You realise that if you aren't using a Framework then you don't know how to have confidence in your decisions.

So are you going to let go and make bad choices so you can learn how to make good choices? Or are you going to let go forever, go back to salaries forever, knowing that in your forties and fifties and sixties and seventies you'll still be spending your time making money for other people and the output of your own hands will be less and less relevant to your own life?

What I've Learned So Far

I started writing a project I call documentarian. I wanted a vanillajs frontend and a golang backend; I picked the stack not really knowing what I wanted, but liking go than other languages.

I had to teach myself how a front end calls to a backend's API endpoints, because I've never tried to be a web developer.

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