You Don't Need a Five-Year Plan

Hi everyone! I've been thinking a lot recently about analysis paralysis -- about the cost of making plans, constant goal-setting, and the need I feel to devise some grand design when beginning new ventures.

In thinking about that I realized that my own journey to my current career was the antithesis to this mindset. My path to computer science was wandering, and guided largely by intuition and half-baked interests.

I wrote a piece (you can find it here https://posttruth.substack.com/p/how-i-got-into-computer-science) about this path, and how it's shaped my views on grand design. I hope this piece is helpful to people at a crossroads and people starting new endeavours, as many of us are.