Solo Development and Individual Businesses
13 min
I couldn't answer algorithm questions in interviews. However, I had working products.
At the age of 24, I entered the IT field without a specialized education. I learned everything on the job: PHP, Vue, Go, Docker, Flutter. During interviews, I was laughed at for my "lack of depth." Eleven years later, the same people are sending me job offers. The theory of punctuated equilibrium from paleontology explains why narrow specialists are going extinct like dinosaurs, while "cognitive
