Why the Best Conversations Aren’t Effortless

As a software engineer you almost never work on topics that you are an expert in. Sure you understand how to design a system, how to fix a bug or how to improve the performance of it. But often your business has quite special needs, be it in advertisement, logistics or legal topics. We work together with many experts who usually built a great intuition to fill the gap. If this works well you learn to rely on them and in the best case you develop a really great working mode. You might not really learn to appreciate this unless you experienced what happens when this does not work well.

Learning the Hard Way

One memory that will probably stay with me forever is from a Sunday back in May 2018.

After years of self-taught piano playing, I finally convinced myself to find a teacher again. I had played piano for almost 20 years by then. I knew some details were off. But overall, I was happy with how I played. I tackled difficult pieces, had good finger control, could jump around the keyboard with precision. I had energy, and I had fun.