Dancing Within the Flame

I finally did it.

I left a well paying software engineer gig in an uncertain economy and job market to pursue my own products.

Have i lost my mind? Maybe, but i think i have some good reasons to think this could turn out well.

Am i going through a midlife-crisis? Most definitely, but hear me out.For the first time in history, highly experienced software engineers that have a strong product mindset are enabled more than ever to realize their own products. We have all the junior developer horsepower we could ever want and then some. If you know what you want to build, can articulate it well, and have the experience to know what good looks like, the currently available tooling can get you there magnitudes faster than before. We have entered the golden age of building software.

That means what may have taken years for a solo engineer to accomplish can now be done in a matter of a few months.

With that knowledge, it's been a struggle continuing to work for someone else's interests when i could be working for mine (and the interests of humanity itself - more to come later on that). I ultimately decided that it was the right time to take the leap. Chances are that i fail. Chances are that the job market continues to worsen and i won't be able to get gainful employment if/when i need it.

I might actually lose it all in this venture, to be quite frank, but for the first time in my life, i'm okay with that possibility. The people i love can live a decent life even if i fall to ruin. But the software i've been dreaming up that everyone deserves to have available to them won't exist unless i build it.

As the famous Garth Brooks song goes, "Life is not tried, it is merely survived if you're standing outside the fire". It's time i "chance the sorry and shame that always comes with getting burned".

I will be posting (or HoomanLogic will be) about these products in the coming weeks and months, but if you're interested in building things that could really make an impact to people's lives, shoot me a DM.

Side note, if you do know of an opportunity for some part-time contracted software engineering work (24hr/week max) that aligns with my experience, i would greatly appreciate anything that extends my runway.