Enjoy the Journey
summary
Argues that career decisions matter more than learning every new framework, citing a pivot from plans to move abroad into an engineering manager role at goodnotes after a chance conference conversation; describes building the classroom team product for iPad, presenting the slide deck made in goodnotes, and finding people — not tech — as the sustaining reward. Mentions being 54, 35 years in software, and 13 years without an office as context for the choice.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:56Career longevity and change
- 7:21Moving to Netherlands and opportunities
- 9:32Transition to consulting and GoodNotes
- 11:21Working with interesting people
- 13:27GoodNotes future and team dynamics
- 14:35Career journey encouragement
- 16:11Q&A
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