I sometimes think tech might be the busiest field in the world.
At any given moment, someone is learning to build something, building it, or shipping it. There's no off switch. New languages show up before you've finished the last one. Frameworks rise and fall in the time it takes to build a portfolio project. And now AI has arrived to change the ground under your feet every few months, just to make sure you never quite get comfortable.
You hold your breath for too long, and you either pass out or get left behind.
Then you open LinkedIn.
And there they are, CEOs, founders, people your exact age, already "building the future," already raising rounds, already speaking on panels about problems you're still trying to understand. You scroll for two minutes and something tightens in your chest. Not quite jealousy. Something closer to a quiet, uncomfortable question:
