Tom MacWright on putting yourself out there and the fear of being found out for being imperfect:
putting your art, writing, expression out to be judged by others is an act of bravery as much as talent, and a lot of people lack bravery. Sorry to say it but if you need your work to be polished and beyond reproach, that’s a determination and character problem, not a skill problem.
You can’t write a compelling narrative about the thing you didn’t build. Nobody gets promoted for the complexity they avoided.
Complexity looks smart. Not because it is, but because our systems are set up to reward it.
Earlier this month, I noted down Jason’s advice on how to get hired as a developer. I’d also like to add the following point from @brandon:
use the product
this is one of the first questions i ask in the interview anyways, ship and share something you’ve built on top of cloudflare. this alone will set you apart from most of the candidates, and it will show you are genuinely interested.
This complements Jason’s advice well, because it turns “show your work” into something concrete and product-specific.
Jason Lengstorf on how to get hired as a developer: