In 2018, I was coasting. I didn’t like it. Life was good, I was steadily employed as a senior developer. We had a good team. We were building valuable software for our customers. Everything seemed great. But I’d been coasting for a few years. I believed I could coast for a few years more (I was wrong) but I was uncomfortable. I needed to fix it. I went through books, articles, podcasts and more books.