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Discussion on: freeCodeCamp's Markdown Previewer project built in Elm

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Scott Simontis

I admire your perspective and approach a lot. I was so caught up with the "production or bust" approach from my last job that I needed a reminder to step back and appreciate the greater context of Evan's work.

Thanks for reminding me to be grateful for what we have so far instead of focusing on where I wish we were. It is amazing that he shared Elm with the world instead of worrying what others would think about it or how many stars it would receive on GitHub, and sharing his passion for Elm with us.

You have me a lot of resources t study, I have been meaning to go through SICP for years but never have done so. I have been so caught up with work and have been unable to get out of that mindset. Even if I wasn't working, I would be adopting the same mindset so that I could get hired faster and market myself in the way that recruiters wanted me to project so that their life would be easier.

I need to spend some time studying for myself without worrying about what is commercially viable or what I can convince an entire team at work to adopt. While I try to get my freelance career set up, I think I am going to make learning for myself a daily goal.

I appreciate your article and your response a lot. I needed to hear this. Just looking through the Elm source code a little, there is so much to learn. I have always had an interest in parsers and there is some absolute gold within the Elm language when it comes to that.