I've been coasting...I admit it and it's time I did something about it!
This started before I came to Microsoft and got slowly worse over the past 2 years...my rate of learning new stuff decreased and I rested on my considerable laurels. But it has to stop...my reader has probably noticed the flurry of new posts on this blog...this is an indicator that I'm finally engaging with life again...time for a reboot.
When I left my last job pre-MS I had basically burnt myself out...I was trying to cram too much work into too little time and it caused the bit of my brain which loved coding to shut down...I lost interest in the greatest passion in my life, learning new code; discovering the next great thing, building software which no-one else ever thought of...and well, I just couldn't do it any more.
Coming to Microsoft gave me a chance to find out what I wanted to do, I could do a 'normal' amount of work (for me, actually it was a lot of work...just not compared to what I was used to before!) across a wide variety of products and discover what I truly had a passion for again.
Being off sick for the past 4 days let me think deeply about that...I literally couldn't do my normal job so I had time to really think about it...now I know, now I am aware of where I should be and what I should be doing...and well...I can't really divulge what *it* is yet but I will, I can feel the little bit of my brain which shut down two years ago sparking back into life and it feels fantastic!
I have a million crazy ideas, I have a decent, fairly stable website and a plethora of new technologies to play with...hmm things could be about to get interesting!