I write about how building fluency in tech starts with finding joy in being with other people
I’ve been working on something with a couple friends over a couple years now. We think teams that talk together (like, a lot) not only make more human, beautiful, and valuable things, they experience more human, beautiful, and valuable days.
The word once scared me. Anger was the opposite of “safe”, as a child.
I think I was trying to embed an image, or hook up a .css file. No matter what I did, I couldn't get the thing to show up. I was stuck. Blocked. Hard. I fundamentally misunderstood something essential to the web.
For me, a crucial part of developing fluency requires practice with my own story. This usually involves retelling the little stories over and over again, to myself and with others, allowing for new aspects to come to the fore.
How you learn to speak your first language matters, a thing that keeps me up at night as we're teaching our kids to converse at home.