It’s been a while since I stopped writing and getting involved in the dev communities, especially in Agile and Startup. I used to write a little here (pt-BR), but it’s been already 10 years since then!

There was a time when I got so tired of participating in events and discussions on Twitter. I was seeing fewer and fewer relevant discussions, learnings or new approaches. It was like everything was already said. Events became boring and repetitive.

On the other hand, I was seeing more and more specialists and experts in everything, more and more courses and consulting products. Not that all these things would not happen before, or in other communities. It’s just that I got so tired of this, and then stopped writing and participating.

Looking backward, I think what pissed me that much was so much vanity and so little essence in the Agile community back then. I was also feeling like I didn’t want anymore to convince people they should be doing Agile, that it was a competitive advantage and all. Then I chose to stop talking about it, and start doing it and enjoy myself the competitive advantage it brings.

Then, I stopped talking and writing and focused on building products.

I had so many incredible experiences and lots of important learnings since then. A very important one, that has increasingly attracting my attention, (and which I took so long to act upon!) is that community involvement and writing should never be fully abandoned as I did.

You don’t need to become a blogger, a youtuber, or a celebrity in the community. But some level of sharing is always healthy. I can say 80 to 90% of good and relevant things that happened in my career were due to that involvement I had previously. It was also a time of great learning and motivation.

What I’ll try to do from now on is to take some weekly time, even a small amount of it, and try to build it as a habit - contribute to open source, participate in some forums, events, write a little, maybe record some videos… who knows. (Of course I strongly recommend you doing so, also!)

And I think the best way to start that out is kicking it off, and making a small commitment with myself. And that’s why I put this humble blog on, and am writing this.

Just like in TDD, I think habits building is more effective with ‘commitment first’ approach - you throw the ball far ahead, and then run after to catch it.

That’s how I’m feeling about this first post.

That’s it. There’s not much here to start, besides these two little (but powerful) ideas:

  • don’s abandon completelly writing and sharing with the communitie;
  • making a commitment is the first step towards a goal.

Welcome, and thanks for reading.