Context

As a teenager I spent a lot of my energy trying to be different. I don’t know what informed my rebellious streak, I just know that once artists got over a couple thousands active listeners on Spotify, I started to lose interest in them.

I’m barely old enough to think straight, and it dawned on me in a conversation with my wife, and I told her, “you know, things are probably actually bigger in Texas”.

Reflection

I’m glad I still have a pretty strong rebel streak in me that propels me to be curious, to try the more esoteric things that others ignore. I’m a better developer for having learned other niche programming languages like

• Zig
• Clojure
• Ocaml
• Gleam
• Nim

(I know, surprisingly no rust, I feel like when it came on the scene it caught on too quickly…)

But, I feel like I don’t often give the public consensus opinion its fair shake.

So here’s to being a normie sometimes, its actually great to be like everyone else.