The last heartbeat at Zed
Today marks the last day at Zed Industries. After a 5 month period, I decided to end the 6 month contact a bit earlier to focus on what’s next.
My journey
Today marks the last day at Zed Industries. After a 5 month period, I decided to end the 6 month contact a bit earlier to focus on what’s next.
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A couple of weeks ago I traveled to Los Angeles for my first summit with Zed Industries. I haven’t done that for some time now. I used to do that a lot when I worked at GitHub. The route was pretty much standard. Thessaloniki to Frankfurt or Munich, and then a 10 or 12 hour flight to San Francisco. This time it was from Thessaloniki to Munich to Los Angeles.
I am not going to lie. Starting over again with a new programming language, after 12 years of not coding full time is not easy. I have been spending most of my time, learning, and staring at code not knowing what it does. I feel my brain works at 1/4 of the speed of more experienced colleagues. Zed Industries is all about pairing. And I’ve now paired with 5 different people. I often get this feeling that I am slowing everyone down.