Happy 2025. Welcome to the new year. I hope you all are excited to get into the new year. It's January 5th, and if you are a super fan of the show, you might know what that means. I'm very grateful and excited and a lot of emotions. Actually, I'm technically recording this on January the 4th. I feel like I should say that, but on tomorrow and really just as we approach this January 5th date for the show, this is a very important date for us. It's the date that we started this podcast, the date that I started this podcast. It's a solo operation, almost exclusive. It gets with the help of my lovely wife way back in 2015. This episode is marking the 10-year anniversary of this show, 10 years of this show. We've been on quite a journey together. Those of you who have listened to this podcast for a long time, you all know about the days where we were a part of the Spec Network, spec.fm. You know. The early days when we were really focused on one primary topic at a time. The show has not really changed drastically over the years. We've had many people on the show. A ton of incredible guests have shared their knowledge, their wisdom. My intention starting this podcast in the earliest days was to create a podcast that I felt like I needed, a podcast that I wanted to exist. A short-form podcast that focused on skills aspects that are evergreen, that I would always be able to return to, kind of these principle-level skills, soft skills usually. Sometimes we talk about more tactical skills on the show, but that was the goal, to create the podcast that I wanted as an engineer, as an engineering leader. As we got into building this show, as we created, as I was able to join with the Spec Network, as I was able to create episodes, create content that people like you listening to the show actually latched onto. We climbed the podcast rankings very quickly back in 2015. That was a different environment than it is today, but we were able to climb those rankings fairly quickly. We were sponsored, not sponsored, but featured by Pocket. That was a big moment for the show. We garnered our first couple of podcast hosts. It took us a little while, but we settled on this ultimate governing mission of Developer T, that is to help developers like you find clarity, perspective, and purpose in their careers. That is still the mission of the show. I doubt that will change. I doubt we will change that. This is kind of an... Evergreen mission. It is one that, as an engineering leader myself, in my day-to-day work, I find this to be a recurring theme, finding clarity, perspective, and purpose in your career will help you shape your career into what you want it to be. I try to avoid becoming a self-help, a guru-type podcast. That is not what we want to do here. I want to give you practical advice. I want you to walk away. I want you to walk away. I want you to be able to apply what I'm saying on this show in real-life situations, and it actually matter to you. If you get to the place with this podcast where you feel like you are not able to apply what you're learning, I encourage you to do two things. One, let me know. Let me know if the content is not actually applying well. You can do that by emailing me. You can join the Developer T Discord community. Email is developerT at gmail. Just let me know that this isn't... It's not really hitting what you need it to hit. It's not doing what maybe it once did for you. But I also encourage you to step away from the show. That's not... I'm not pushing people away. Certainly, we want as many developers as find this valuable, but I don't want you to feel like you're wasting your time listening to this podcast. That's the last thing that we want. We want people who are engaged with this to feel the value that it is generating in their careers and to be able to practice it. Practice the things we talk about on the show day in and day out in your careers, in your life. I've been very fortunate to receive plenty of messages affirming that this podcast has been helpful. Those messages come from all kinds of people, not just junior software engineers, but I've got people who are listening to this show who are very, very much senior level. It's CTOs who listen to the show, but also people who aren't even engineers. People who are not software engineers who listen to this podcast. And I really believe that's because we focus on those principles. These are principles that happen to apply to software engineers. And we talk... Usually, we talk about how they apply to software engineers most specifically. But very often, the principles that we discuss on the show are broadly applicable. They can actually translate to other categories of your life. Whether that's your personal life. Maybe it's other... Or industries that can apply some of this stuff we talk about on this show. So we've done this for 10 years. And you may be wondering, what's next? We're going to keep doing this show. The format might change over time. We might have different frequencies. But this show is fulfilling an important need for me in my life. It is a constant. I've had multiple jobs while hosting this show. I've played multiple parts in the industry. I've done a lot of different things. But this show remains a constant part of my career. A constant part of my life. And I truly love doing this podcast. I really enjoy being able to help people. And to do it in a way that's freely accessible. You don't have to pay me anything to take advantage of what I'm saying. And selfishly, I get a lot out of being able to talk through some of these concepts. Being able to learn about the concepts. And share them in a way. Seneca once said that while we teach, we learn. And this idea, this is actually called the protege effect. It's the idea that when we have to explain material ourselves, we tend to need to fill in blanks that we otherwise didn't see. We didn't recognize that those blanks existed in the first place. And in filling in those blanks, we tend to learn more ourselves. So. So as long as this podcast continues to generate value for me personally. And especially if it continues to deliver value to the people who listen to it. I will continue creating this podcast. And I hope you will continue to listen. The one thing that I ask on this show is that you share it with people that you think will find value in it as well. Share it with other engineers or people who aren't necessarily engineers. As we've already mentioned here. This show is certainly geared towards engineers. We're not going to change that. We're not going to try to broaden to. You know, it making it perfectly applicable to all audiences or anything like that. But if you know somebody who you think would take would be able to take advantage of the ideas that, you know, mental models, the frameworks, the various things we talked about on the show. Please share this episode and other episodes and they can get an idea of what this podcast is about. Thank you so much for listening to this episode. I hope you enjoyed this discussion. This quick kind of reflection moment for me. And for you, especially those of you who have joined me on this journey. Thank you so much. And until next time, enjoy your tea. Thank you.