1. Continuous Improvement in 2022
This is an archived newsletter issue published on December 19, 2021.
It’s 18th December already. I can’t believe that 2021 is almost over. It was like March a few days ago, and now it’ll be Christmas in a few days.
This year has been different for many of you, including me — a wild ride.
I went from getting offers to work as a full-time iOS engineer to rejecting them and risking working as a freelancer and a technical writer. And the biggest challenge — battling for life with COVID. The year ended on a good note when I decided to switch paths a little and land a role as a Developer Relations Engineer.
I didn’t tick a single goal I planned for myself in the 2021 roadmap, and I’m glad it went that way. I slowly realise that life isn’t a to-do list to tick your goals and be happy about it. I did that in 2020, got my “dream” internship at Apple, and then it felt aimless.
I’ve learned about myself how I love to take ambitious challenges. Let’s refactor the whole codebase! Let’s push this big feature that’ll double the revenue in a week! Let’s write this blog post in a day!
I never succeeded in any of them and failed miserably instead.
I messed up the refactor.
The big feature broke in production because I wrote the code quickly.
And I intended to complete that post in a day? Well, that took me a month.
Continuous Improvement in 2022
Advocating for a CI/CD platform made me realise how I need a continuous integration process in my life too. Instead of refactoring the whole codebase, let’s take one non-crucial screen to refactor, send a pull request, make sure it works, and then move on to the next small thing. Instead of writing a post in a day, let’s focus on writing one section in a day. Achievable? Without any doubt.
It isn’t easy to maintain consistency, and it should be. This habit of trying to achieve everything at once has taken months to develop, and it’ll take months to break too.
Journaling
I used to write (like using a pen and paper) a lot a few years ago to curate my thoughts and emotions into bits and pieces of paper. It definitely helped me to understand what my mind hopes and what the reality is.
Early Conclusion
I’m still evaluating what value this newsletter provides and how to proceed further in 2020.
Do people like ramblings instead of newsletters filled with tech? I don’t know.
All I know is I want to be consistent with it, and if you loved what I wrote above, share it with your friends!
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Happy weekend!
