Oh, The Places You’ll Go!

Today marks the 10th anniversary of this blog. It’s been quite the career journey since I sat down to write my first post, appropriately titled Hello World.

At that time, I was sitting in a drab cubicle in a perfectly ordinary office building, probably gingerly sipping a cup of coffee (I didn’t start drinking coffee until about that time, if you can believe it) and getting ready to start my day of rewriting a large Perl application to meet a silly set of coding standards.

Today, I sit writing this in the Rose Reading Room of the New York Public Library, about to embark on a morning of (hopefully) focused effort to provide architectural guidance and documentation feedback on a couple projects I’m overseeing. In the afternoon, I have a project kickoff to attend, and will likely have a smattering of emails and Slack messages to respond to.

Such is the life of a CTO. Gone are the days of 9-5 coding. Little did I know back when I started writing here (let alone 25 years ago when I was earning my computer science degree) where my career would be headed or what it would entail on a day-to-day basis. But that’s pretty normal it seems.

If you’re here, thanks for reading. I hope to keep doing it for another 10 years. But for now, time to get back to the day job.