After some bittersweet realizations, I’ve come to the conclusion I desire to reorganize my digital life. I’ve done a lot of work outside of my website in this direction, but the work on Lipson.me suffered neglect while I focused on other work and with certain circumstances made returning a tedius task. The biggest realization was that I want to be taken more seriously than I portray. I might be confident in my work, but I don’t frequently portray it to my peers or colleagues.
Digital reorganization:I wouldn’t say I’ve had a of clutter, but I’ve always feared a narrow approach to describing myself. I’m not sure if it was a fear to commit myself to a specific focus or a fear of putting myself out there for others to judge. It was to the point that I hadn’t considered myself a “PHP Developer” until about a year ago, despite several years of intense work with PHP.
In my reorganization of this site, I will be focusing on content relevant to my work and experiences as a developer. My motivation for this is that I fear my résumé is flat and doesn’t do an appropriate job at describing me, combine this with my inherent vagueness it can be frustrating to be taken seriously at much.
To be frank, I don’t want to compete with the 90,000 technical sites or tutorial sites out there. I think, as a developer, my value is not related to my knowledge of syntax but my understanding of core concepts and knowledge of what works well. Instead, I will try to focus on concepts and provide links to technical references and tutorials when appropriate.