How Data Engineering Became Fun Again (Escaping the Rut)
Why I Stopped Chasing Titles and Started Solving Problems
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4 min readApr 5, 2024
I got my first computer at 17. I can’t tell you what make or model because it was a Frankenstein — a “pavement special”. One that I picked out of the trash and cobbled together with spare parts and hand-me-downs from people I knew.