How to stop feeling lost in tech: the wafflehouse method

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these past few weeks I’ve received a massive amount of dms from CS students being absolutely lost.like to a level of lost I’m feeling their stress and anxiety in my own chest.on top of that some of you are going through the absolute worst time of your life I don’t know how you guys are still standing up but I’m in awe.I found myself reiterating the same advice to at least 7 people now, so I’ll write it all here for those who are too crippled to ask for help.hope it’s useful folks and keep it up.never surrender.I’m receiving a variation of this, but the common element is always that the person feels completly lost.lost because AI will take their job, lost because it seems there is too much to learn, lost because they don’t know if they actually like this whole tech thing, etc.hold on.hold it right there.most had no idea. they had the vaguest picture of what they would be doing in 5 years.and trying to figure it out by looking at technology is the wrong way to look at it.it would be like trying to obsess intensely over hammers, nails, saw to build a house. tech is the same; it’s just a set of tools to do something.enter my favorite method to get your life untangled, which I call the wafflehouse method (bear with me, I swear this blog post is useful).I’ll detail here how to use it, but remember that untangling your life goals is a deeply personal process. take inspiration from this, but feel free to modify so that it feels good.call in sick, cancel your meetings and plans for two days.straight in the middle of the week.don’t tell your kids, wife, moms or friends that you are taking off.you are going to go on a deeply personal introspective adventure and the only one invited is you.48h to find yourself in the whole year is the least you can do.sorry for the image but yes that’s what you gonna do.pick your favorite spot, the one you feel very good to be at, and can spend a whole day by yourself.can’t give you advice on picking a spot just make sure that wherever you are ...