I’ve been in tech long enough to think I’d already lived through the big shifts.
We went from on-prem to cloud. Then came digital transformation, where every company suddenly needed to become a software company (whether they had any business doing so or not). Entire stacks got rebuilt - .NET stopped feeling inevitable, Python spread everywhere, and everyone got weirdly excited about Next.js. Mobile came in hot (B2B, naturally, is still deciding whether a phone is a real device). Recurring revenue became our SaaS religion. Remote work exploded, then partially un-exploded. Product-led growth rewired how companies scaled.
Each wave felt big. AI feels 10x bigger. And 10x faster.
That speed is the part I can’t quite process. There are days where it genuinely feels like I need a full-time job just to keep up with what’s happening. And even then, I’m not convinced I am. Am I just getting better at being slightly less behind?? Haha.
And that’s really the feeling underneath all of this: behind.
No…
