June 2024 I started a new website called ShippingBytes. I thought I was looking for a place where I could write tech articles about lesson learned and similar that felt wrong to write here.
This blog to be is more like a diary, writing about what I am doing and why more than how. I wrote many how-to articles here but I also skipped many because I didn’t want to publish them here.
Anyway, I tried to figure out a writing schedule, daily, weekly but it quickly turned to never.
My plan was to use ShippingBytes to do a bit of branding for a future where I will find myself doing consulting and freelancing work. I am not sure if it will ever happen or if I will like such career but I tend to change companies more often than what I would like to and this makes me to think that probably being an employee is not what I should do for my entire career.
But something I learned along the way is that there are many many companies doing very cool things and that I want to learn from and work with. And many people told me that doing consulting and freelancing has its own complexity and its own skillset like everything. I also feel like my skillset is very wide and not that deep. I did a lot of experience with Kubernetes, I joined the Release Team for a few iterations but I don’t want to work with it for 8 hours. For this reason if you want to pay the most up to date, and most skilled Kubernetes expert I am not that person, I can figure everything out but I don’t know everything and I feel the same for everything I know. A few people are really into eBPF, they like the topic, they expanded as security expert and I think it is the good intersection of skills and market that can turn into a sustainable consulting experience. I can’t relate to any technology I work with or techonlogy I want to invest into.
Yep, there is a bit of missfeeling as you can notice and if you feel the same let me know with an email ciao@gianarb.it because I want to know how you feel about it as well.
This article may feel a bit negative but I learned a few things and I started to experiement with alternative models that may work for me, but they are long term and I don’t have enough to share just yet. The TLDR is that I started sharing my wide tech skills with a couple of friends that happened to run a successfully business and that wants to expand in the digital side (who does not want to) in exchange of piece of the stake of the company itself or some sort of royalies. It will work? I don’t know but I will let you know.
This will may force me to move out from a full time job but we will see and diversifying is something that I think I want to apply to my dialy job as well not only as investing strategy because it sounds like a good strategy for this time of uncertainties where a full time job is not that stable as it should be.
Anyway to get back to the main topic I am going to keep ShippingBytes as domain for a bit because I like the name, and I thought about a name for a long time so I want to see how it ages for a bit more but I removed the blog and I won’t write there. I left the newsletter box because you never know but I think I know.