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I observe a world where the only thing we can guarantee is nothing will be the same. I think I enjoy this chaos nature. It wasn’t something I always embraced. I still observe my tendency to control. That last bit of effort to make things feel as if they’ll be better once I decide how it should be. I’m realizing I miss out a lot on life when I do this. Protecting myself from the pain or struggles gets exhausting. Ironically, I realize it would have been easier to show up for the lesson and take the bruises. ...

If you’ve spent any length of time with me over the past few months you already knew. It’s been a very complicated decision that I’ve given a lot of thought. It wasn’t easy. I had an amazing boss, great pay, benefits, downtown office with snacks (precovid). The ideal dream job, I saw for myself in San Francisco. Living the tech life I had envisioned for so long. It wasn’t given to me. It was a struggle and fight to get to this point. I sacrificed a lot, spending so much time and money to improve my skills and experience needed to be marketable. It took a while, and a few times I didn’t think I was ever going to make it in the bay area. Eventually, I brought myself up to a level where I was capable of working with some of the most brilliant minds I’ve ever encountered. ...

Eventually you have a pile of clever and witty things. You did a bunch of cool shit and now you get go on an on about cool the shit you did was. Not only that, but you get to buy over priced coffee and sit at table in a busy place in a busy city while busy people busy around busy town. Clearly sarcastic, but also sounds fun. When I first did WP the mobile structure was a little rickety if not absent. Today I’m able to comfortably type out an article via my phone. Sure its not as soothing or fast as a keyboard. But lately I’ve been typing out a lot of my ideas to trello anyway. I could easily see me writing articles on the fly from my phone. ...

My history with WordPress stretches over a decade. Every time I revisit, it becomes more and more streamlined. Much of that is the advancement in the technology but also my own skill set and understanding. Recently I’ve been working a lot with AWS architecture. I leaned a bit into those skills to eliminate a lot of the overhead I used to have with developing a LAMP stack server to host the WordPress app. ...