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Lem Dulfo
Lem Dulfo

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2025: Where I Am / Where I Want To Be

This is a submission for the 2025 New Year Writing challenge: Compiling 2025.

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I don't know when I started the format "where I am and where I want to be", but I found a journal entry as early as 2018. It included "Remote work". I've wanted to be a digital nomad ever since I heard the term. I finally work for a company where one of the tenets is Distributed by Design, but fear has kept me from "doing the thing", coming up with some excuse or other.

Yesterday, I arrived in Brazil, fresh from Toronto where we celebrated Clio's Team Day 2025.

I'll be here for a few months, where I get to escape Canadian winter. Oddly enough, I still don't think "digital nomad" applies to me.

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Where I Am

  • 1200+ DEV.to followers
  • not much of a YouTube dev presence
  • only learning when I feel like it

Where I Want To Be / What I Want To Do

  • participate in more DEV challenges
  • make time for learning intentionally
  • present at Dev Talks
  • attend more in-person events (hmm... maybe even in Brazil)
  • improve communication and presentation skills
  • finally release my "deconstructing React Native" series of articles and YouTube videos
  • attend React Native Universe Conf
  • ask for help

Looking at that list, it seems like a lot. I would really need to be more disciplined so I can achieve my goals. I need to remind myself to give myself some grace.

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