Hello World! - It's been a long time for me not to write again in this blog. It take some effort for me to so, but actually I could have a time again in bloging. Pardon me if my English is really bad but I'm trying my best to write an article in English. This is the first article in this Blog that written in English. Next thing will come up too.
I have no idea if the day lead me to this topic. As usual at weekend morning, I always do looking for articles or reading material on the internet. There are some topic that I interested to explore. Oddly enough that those topic is not related to my job right now. I know I'm a web developer and there are so much thing that I don't know about backend, programming, tools, or new technology that related to my skill or my job.
So oddly ever. One day my friend come up with new information about library and tools that can make us - developer to work faster and easier. In my mind, I just say, cool! It's a good thing to know something like that. When that friend ask me for something similar, I have no word. Should I?
I'm sure that a lot of people know that words, "Stay hungry, stay foolish". Some people that words means nothing. Some people inspired by that word but do nothing or not know to do either. But, can we clarify something? I think we should identify what thing to "hungy and foolish". I bet everyone have their own hungry-ness and foolish-ness. You can't push someone have to know about this, this, or this. It's better not to say something like " as developer you should know this and this or this". That a bad word for me that can kill interest someone.
I'll tell something about my interested things. I'm hungry with out of my skill's box. And of course I'm foolish about it. But I have an interest and spirit to learn and to know it better. People always told me to stay hungry and stay foolish. Yes, I'm hungry and I'm foolish, but not for more something about my skill. I'm hungry with business, marketing, content, and ideas. For CMS, system, library, framework and tools or another thing about web or apps development even technical thing? Let's talk about it in another day.
For your information, there is a barrier like "technical" label on your back when your role as web developer is first known by people. When you talk to strategist people to discuss something about plan and strategy, you always feel, even those people not say it, that is not your role belongs to be. Some time your idea or contribution will rejected.
It's ok. That is a part of learning journey until you get the first "Yes" answer from them. Some one told me to never give up until people aware about your other skills, until you hear first "Yes" word. The thing have to do is stay talk and discuss with them and meet new people that never knew your background skills. That is a good opportunity to show your knowledge and skill about what you hunger and foolish for.
I write this as reminder for my self to not give up. I think, nothing is wasted about what article you ever read on the morning. Everything are carrying something. It's like a part of puzzle. There is a time for you to arranged it piece by piece until it resolved. And every piece is mean something.
That is my story about my "stay hungry, stay foolish". What's yours?
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