This is a submission for the 2025 New Year Writing challenge: Compiling 2025.
Distributed by Design
I don't know when I started the format "where I am and where I want to be", but I found a journal entry as early as 2018. It included "Remote work". I've wanted to be a digital nomad ever since I heard the term. I finally work for a company where one of the tenets is Distributed by Design, but fear has kept me from "doing the thing", coming up with some excuse or other.
Yesterday, I arrived in Brazil, fresh from Toronto where we celebrated Clio's Team Day 2025.
I'll be here for a few months, where I get to escape Canadian winter. Oddly enough, I still don't think "digital nomad" applies to me.
Where I Am
- 1200+ DEV.to followers
- not much of a YouTube dev presence
- only learning when I feel like it
Where I Want To Be / What I Want To Do
- participate in more DEV challenges
- make time for learning intentionally
- present at Dev Talks
- attend more in-person events (hmm... maybe even in Brazil)
- improve communication and presentation skills
- finally release my "deconstructing React Native" series of articles and YouTube videos
- attend React Native Universe Conf
- ask for help
Looking at that list, it seems like a lot. I would really need to be more disciplined so I can achieve my goals. I need to remind myself to give myself some grace.
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