the thing that is special about the web has never been the ability to be enterprising, to sell, to "ship". the web is magic for its intrinsic Romanticism — its emotion, its freedom to explore & reflect, to self-discover and -actualize; an infinite frontier of philosophy & art
i don't care about working in tech, i care about working on the world wide web. it's a quiet miracle that someone would pay me to create, solve problems, tell stories online.
it's why the phrase "developer experience" has lost so much meaning to me — you've been given an endless horizon of possibility to share joy and wonder and mystery and sorrow and love and spiritual catharsis; what more powerful experience could you seek?