Your self reflection to go deeper and then resurface to the level you are comfortable expanding your expertise in parallels some of mine. Hailing from a univers

Your self reflection to go deeper and then resurface to the level you are comfortable expanding your expertise in parallels some of mine. Hailing from a university in my country which didn’t go deep enough in any of the subjects, I was left with this insatiable desire to do something about it. It led me to my Master’s in US where I got (or at least I thought I did) once in a lifetime opportunity to take one of the hardest and most fulfilling classes: Operating Systems. It opened my eyes to the magic I couldn’t understand and gave me the confidence of “I can do anything if I put my mind to it” by building a kernel. I learned enough to realise that it is not something I can do as a day job but still venture into should I need to while working on something. To this day, I thank my past self for making this decision of taking on a task that I felt so insurmountable. Whenever I come across a hard problem now which seems insurmountable, the confidence from that experience is what keeps me going.