Nobody forced me to do this. In fact, years later, barely anyone knows. I wasn't always like this. I was a brat. I felt entitled to attention just because I did the bare minimum. I lacked common sense. I was a naive person who thought that I could be a 10x developer by doing 100 Days of Code.

I'll admit that's why I stopped on March 26th, 2023. It wasn't that it was a huge strain on my growing family or that the pandemic had started to lift. I felt like 10x was quantified through this daily contribution. The truth is, I wasn't 10x the average developer. I had barely caught up after being stuck in tutorial hell for years. It wasn't only because of the daily coding. It was because I was exposed to more at my day job, combined with nightly reinforcement.

That was enough to close the gap in an increasingly tighter market. Within a year, I was promoted to senior software engineer at my day job. My website was up and displaying a resume along with a blog on what I learned with GitHub Actions during this time. Suddenly, my life sped up as I reaped the benefits of my decision to focus on skillsets.