Software Is a Superpower

We tend to belittle everything we already know. Since we know it, everyone should also know about this.

But there’s one thing I’d never give for granted, and it’s the power that software gives us.

Not just the ability to write software.

Also having software we can use.

No-code tools are so advanced you can do a whole lot of things with them.

But being able to write software, also perhaps using low-code tools, gives you the keys to automation to a whole new level.

Whenever I do something I try to put it into a system, so I do not have to repeat it manually myself.

I am a one-person business, and I can do so only because I have an army of little robots, running 24 hours a day 7 days a week, doing stuff for me.

Little things. But the little things that matter.

Thinking in systems is also one big ability linked to this.

Having a system of interconnected automations that work for you while you sleep, while you are on vacation, while you are out running.

For thousands of years, people could only dream about this possibility. Instead, they had to employ people. They had to build or buy expensive and fragile machines. Since a few years, not too many, we have access to an incredible set of tooling to bring this thousands-year-long dream to reality.

And we should 100% take advantage of this possibility.

If you realize there’s this opportunity you’re already on the good track. This is not something you are born with. You can learn it. It takes time, and a lot of study.

I depend on various platforms to do so.

I like my systems to be lean and small. Microservices, if you like.

An event is triggered, information is sent to my automated service, and it does its job.

If the job fails, there aren’t a lot of things to look out for the cause of this failure.

And my centralized logging platform tells me what happened, when and why.

That’s the thing that allows me to be a solopreneur in the first place, in the digital space.

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