This book is for the latter audience-the adventurers, the heroes, and the brave of heart-the tribe of IT. When faced with this rapid change, you have two choices: shelter in place and hope the change won’t affect you or put on your seatbelt and enjoy the ride. While it has long been true that the rate of change is accelerating, the increased speed at which the cloud moves makes it feel like someone has poured gasoline on a fire. IT has always been about passionate people embracing and managing change. If that sounds like a great world to you then you should not be in IT, and you should not be reading this book. As a child, a person learned how to get things done that person taught his or her children the same skills, and that continued for generation after generation. In other words, the way things were done changed at a glacial pace. Someone once pointed out that for most of human history, people died in the same world that they were born in. Things never stay the same for very long in IT. Having your Ikigai within the realm of technology as a developer or IT professional, your Ikigai makes you tolerant of the inevitable with technology: change. How does Ikigai around your role as an IT professional or developer intersect? As we have explored, it gives you a base for your role on this planet. (See Figure 1-1.)įigure 1-6 Venn diagram of Ikigai-enhanced. Take out a piece of paper, draw a circle at the top of the page, and think critically about what it is you truly love to do. Let’s take a few minutes to explore this concept of Ikigai and your role as an IT pro or developer. You need to be able to take other value from your life in the IT world. Anyone looking to get into a technology field should honestly answer the very basic question, “What do you really love?” If you’re getting into the IT business just to make money, it will be a long road. This “reason for being” can be found at the intersection of what you love and what you are good at, crossed with world needs and getting yourself paid. Ikigai is a Japanese reference for “a reason for being.” As an IT professional or developer, it is important that you have your vocation centered on what you love to do and do it well because “change” in our world of technology is inevitable. For example, there are three words used to describe love. The Japanese culture is rich in descriptive words.
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