What would the current version of myself want to work on, if I had the opportunity to.

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths - Walt Disney

Starting these blog posts with something that doesn't make enough sense just to get to the main premise of the blog has sort of become a second nature to me,

For the better half of June, I have been asking myself this question,

What would the current version of myself want to work on, if I had the opportunity to.

Based on my list of projects, I thought I can easily answer this question, but it turns out I really can't,

I have spend the better part of my life consuming fiction, The first thing that comes to mind when I try to tackle this question, is an intersection fiction and engineering.

College was a wonderful time, it allowed me to try out new things,

post college nurturing curiosity has been difficult and lately I have been thinking about this a lot.

I started learning react as tool that would allow me to build interfaces for the web, and have fuelled my curiosity enough with it, but unfortunately there is no undergrad course on nurturing curiosity,

It's been a long time since I have been thinking in Javascript,

Andrew Kelly has had tremendous impact on the way I think,

I am not a web developer, neither am I a frontend engineer,

boxing out myself on the basis of my best skill feels kinda wrong, the joy of building something just because you want it to exist is unparalleled. I think calling myself an engineer would satisfy me in the best sense possible.

So coming back to this question again, my answer for now would be:

To work on engineering problem statements that would make me curious enough to spend every hour of my time into it.

This may seem overly ambitious to some of my realists friends out there, but post college you discover a lot about yourself and If there is one thing I have discovered it's

either I am making myself curious enough to enjoy engineering or not, there is no in between.

I guess that's it for this week, I don't know how good of a projection it was for what I have been thinking, but for now it gives me enough clarity to take actionable steps.

Conclusion

Not thinking too far ahead or about the market this time, I think I will let my curiosity guide me for now.