RC Day 03 - Introductions

Day 3 activities.

• Execute Program.
• Fighting with Fedex UK’s completely labyrinthine website to have my old company laptop collected.
• Made a thing! Time-Anxiety-as-a-Service. I got caught up with some opaque errors, went deep into a SvelteKit and MDSvex rabbit hole, then realized I was being a dummy.
• Learned about hosting events. RC is extremely Recurser-run.
• Paired to solve Advent of Code 2021 day 2 in Rust.
• Listened to three awesome non-tech talks from Recursers: career strategy, putting 90s tech in a 70s car, and (mostly) ublock.

We also had an introductions and advice session, where we (re-)met our batchlings and more folks from the batch that started before this. The elder Recursers shared some wisdom:

• Don’t be precious about your time. Being generous with it allows you to do more: you’re more likely to be unblocked quickly if you pair, for instance.
• There is no fixed schedule here. No one will tell you what to do. Observe yourself in this state and experiment with how you spend your time.
• Ask for help and put yourself out there.
• Try to work with people on whatever they are working on, even if you don’t know a lot about what they’re working on.
• Try to do things that scare you. A good signal you are at the edge of your abilities is not being sure you’ll succeed.
• Keep a few projects active - some easy and some hard.
• Sign up to present your work as a means of generating accountability.
• Reaching out to people is a good thing.
• Start things to figure out if you like them.
• Figure your schedule out.