CAREER 

my months long leave is about to end, and i'm about to return to work. the past 2 years didn't turned out well as i planned. on the positive side it's a great experience me some things new, teaching me about the temptation  vs that truly matters to myself. but now the question is what's next? 

there are several things i could consider. 


Large scale projects/infra
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- it's not always possible to have exposure to projects at this large scale. So while at it, maybe get hands on experience. 
- Cons: these projects are usually mature and don't get a lot of career advancement. 
- Thinking: are there large scale projects that are just started?


Languages 
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- PL and tool chains seem to be a converging point for many vertices. 
- It's impact could be big. 
- But because of its ubiquity and foundamentality, it could be harder to steer the big ship (but do you need to steer or go with the trend?) 
- Some interesting areas:
  - WASM for serverless, sandboxing, containerization
  - Dynamic languages gradual typing, static analysis. 
  - new languages like rust
  - optimization JIT, AoT, LLVM profile based
  - Another large area is dev experience - IDE, build system, data/ml productivity (notebook, etc)


What are the customers?
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From the past two years i learned to think about customers, not the cliché way, but i'm a sense that in order to do your job well, ideally you have to BE your customer first, and be good at doing their job (better than 80%off them). and kind of like that job. Then you move down the stack a bit, building for them. 

Now applying this thinking, 


What do toy want from the move?
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