If there is any habit I am most proud of, it is the unquenchable desire to always know more. Not just to get more knowledge, but to constantly acquire that knowledge that takes you to another level - a leap. And not just the knowledge, the deep understanding also.
Sitting down at the Karabow office I find myself reminiscing, counting the great leaps I have experienced in my intellectual life, leaps that have helped get me to where I am now.
1. Learning programming (sept 2008): the very activity that fills my being.
2. Learning C# (Dec 2009/Jan 2010): it opened the door to learn other C-like programming languages
3. Learning web APIs (Aug 2013): it opened my eyes and mind to understand, on a deeper level, how this connected world of ours truly works.
4. Learning mobile, starting with BlackBerry (Oct 2013): so I didn't have to feel like an ancient dinosaur in a modern world.
5. Learning CIL/MSIL (Nov 2013, what a leap): it opened the door into creating tools like compilers, transpilers, runtime environments.
6. Learning OS Development (Jan 2015 - date): it opened the door into a whole new world of creating platforms like operating systems, custom ROMs.
Judging from these leaps, it becomes apparent that I may soon find myself in the world of hardware development. I CAN'T WAIT. It is my earnest desire that one day we will wake up and realise that what used to be done only by the "oyibos" is now being done in Nigeria. When that day comes I hope someone will be able to point to me and say "Frank was one of the people who started this African scientific revolution."
I remember my early days as a programmer, having MANY people to look up to. I am very humble, but this is the truth: I AM ON A WHOLE DIFFERENT LEVEL NOW!
I thank God for this undying desire for self development.
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