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Another Trip Around the Sun
Some personal musings from year under the pandemic
This is a bit of a departure from my usual post. Every time I write, there is a personal lens of my experiences, conversations, and discoveries that I bring to these essays. But it’s my birthday and there are some things not in the usual vein of tech trends, engineering principles, developer culture, coding, and organizational efficiency that I hope you will indulge me in sharing.
I have to state that this year was not hard for me in the way it was for many others. I was very fortune and blessed to not be touched by the pandemic in any significant way, but that blessing does weigh in on my thinking. So many passed away or lost jobs or closed businesses over the past year. I hope and pray that we recover soon though as vaccines start to turn the course of the pandemic and we can come to a place where we can confidently explore, build, and grow again.
Thinking back to this month, March, a year ago, the world looked just as it always did. The warning signs were there that a full scale pandemic was about to hit the US, but it looked like something that was happening elsewhere far away. I remember being in a CVS the morning of DevOpsDays NYC 2020 to pick up some supplies and a security guard was mocking the lady at the register for wearing a blue surgical mask. Though the DevOpsDays team had plenty…
