Chapter 1Have Fun

But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of earth’s furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born, and in keeping yourself with labour, you are in truth loving life, and to love life through labour is to be intimate with life’s inmost secret.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

If you’ve gotten to the point of being a software developer with the luxury to actually think about which direction you want your career to go in, congratulations! You can count yourself as very lucky. There are many cultures in which getting to decide what you do for a living is a great privilege which very few people enjoy. As a software developer, you’re not likely worried about how to pay for a place to live or how to buy food. ...

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