I was recently asked to update an init script as part of a staging JSON file. My first thought was... this is above my pay grade. My second thought... this is outside my comfort zone. If I’ve learned anything in my career, it’s that some of the most useful work happens when you trust your ability to figure something out instead of waiting until it’s already familiar, or until someone else teaches it to you. So I dug in, opened about a dozen new tabs, consulted Cursor, got all the context I needed, and I made the change. Realistically, it was easier than I thought, and for bonus points, it helped resolve an issue I’d initially escalated to my engineering team. There’s a lesson in there somewhere about teaching a person to fish... But for you, dear reader, I’ll leave you with this: “I haven’t done this before” and “I can’t do this” have never been the same thing.
