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Discussion on: I Found My People at a Programming Meetup

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Damien Cosset

As individuals, our effectiveness is determined by our unique blend of personality characteristics, mental strengths, and domain specific knowledge, but the spine of every programmer's mentality is the urge to solve problems. It doesn't matter how early or late we are in our career, what technologies and tools we happen to use in the moment, what we studied in college, whether we are trying to get a system to mimic the human brain or tracking down a TypeError -- the ability to identify problems and the drive to solve them powers everything we do and is the only reason we can do what we do (and do it well). It's a beautiful thing and I'm proud to be in the club.

Beautifully said. I would even say that each person uniqueness should be cultivated to allow us to solve problems in a better way. All of those things that make each developer unique are clues that we must use to create better softwares for the people we want to empower.

I'm glad you found your community. Being part of something like this is truly an amazing feeling.