Masters3d

Technical. Creative. Tactical. Director.

Tag: reflection

Posts connected by the reflection tag.

2 posts

Warming Up the Tires: Team Changes and Career Momentum

📅 October 18, 2026 ⏱️ 7 min read

Every team change cost me six to twelve months of career momentum while trust and context warmed back up. A decade of those changes also turned adapting into a skill, and that skill matters more now that the way software engineers work is changing fast.

The MOOC Era Was All Exploration and No Action

📅 July 31, 2026 ⏱️ 7 min read

Nanodegrees and massive open online courses gave me an endless exploration phase and almost no action phase. Watching someone else code feels like learning right up until you open an empty file. Exercism and Math Academy fixed that by making the first move yours.