Sun 12 July 2015

Hello again, Internet People! Lets start with some news and updates!

Hacker School is now The Recurse Center

This is kind of 'old' news, but since I went AWOL for a while, I'm only now making the announcement to the world. For now, I am going to leave my old blog posts that mention Hacker School as is, but in the future I hope to go back and change them. Going forward, I will use 'The Recurse Center' exclusively.

For anyone who would like more information about The Recurse Center or about the name change, check out these links:

• www.recurse.com
• www.recurse.com/blog/77-hacker-school-is-now-the-recurse-center

I'm working at Security Compass

After a few months of job searching this winter, I landed a position as a paid intern at a Security Compass in Toronto. I am a little over 3 months into the position, and I have signed a contract to become a permanent Junior Dev starting in August! I am excited to be staying with them, and I look forward to the challenges to come!

I want to take a quick moment here to thank The Recurse Center for all of the support it offered me during the job search process. I found much support and advice from the facilitators as well as from other recurse center participants, and for that I am really grateful. Thank you.

Building Momentum

The move and the internship have been the primary reasons for my blogging leave of absence. Initially, with all these changes in my life, I needed more rest than usual and so I took a break from blogging. But then as time passed I found it was increasingly harder to get back into writing. Despite the plethora of articles I had buzzing in my head demanding to be written, procrastination always seemed to win. And in the rare moments when I actually managed to write something, I often couldn't find the time to 'perfect' my work and so perfectionism silenced me from publishing it.

This blog post is my attempt to battle perfectionism and procrastination. I hope that with this imperfect blog post, I can get the ball rolling again, and build the momentum to start writting on a somewhat more regular basis again.

Ciao!

Category: Blog Tagged: Life The Recurse Center