My Expertise
July 1, 2014 Leave a comment
When I was one I had just begun
When I was two I was nearly new
When I was three I was hardly me
When I was four I was not much more
When I was five I was just alive
But now I am six, I’m as clever as clever;
So I think I’ll be six now for ever and ever.
— A. A. Milne[1]
I’m fast approaching six years as a professional software engineer. A quick back of the envelope calculation suggests that this means I’ve worked 11,820 hours, and have been becoming a software engineer for four years prior — back at the start of 2004 was when I first started university. According to Malcolm Gladwell’s definition I should be an expert by now.
A Million Code Monkeys 