I want to take a crack at predicting the future half because I think it’ll be fun to look back on this post (hi future self, hope you’re doing well! 👋) and half because I think it’s important to periodically take some time to pause, reflect, and plot your future trajectory. And in order to plot where you’re going it’s helpful to look ahead and see what kind of terrain you’re dealing with.

Think about how hard it would be to get all of humanity to agree on and learn one language. It’s impossible right? Even if we made contact with aliens who told us they would destroy the planet unless we all learned one language it’s still not going to happen. Coordination at that scale is out of humanities grasp right now and even getting a group of people to agree on anything is rough.

The other day I noticed I don’t follow any tech bloggers personally anymore. Some of that may be the rise of social media and aggregator sites filling the void but the bigger reason I think is that I haven’t been seeking out individuals to follow since around the time Coding Horror stopped blogging regularly. It’s a bit of a shame really since I think you can learn a lot by following individuals and seeing their own progression arc.