Non-Linear Progress

People expect linear growth in their careers, when in fact, you may grow in a line that resembles a roller coaster. You're likely to have some key projects or key jobs that super charge your growth; those build career capital that will continue paying off for years to come.

How to be ready for such projects?

1. Keep on the learning: talk about learning AWS for cert, and being able to contribute in bot framework

Other times will be flat or may be a bit worse. Why?

1. You have big life changes, like children, sick relative, illness, etc.
2. External circumstances, like a pandemic or a war
3. The job or the role is not a great fit, manager sucks
4. Intrinsic motivation issues
   1. Maybe mental health and motivation is like a sine function?

This matches up really well with the principle of Work at a natural pace. Sometimes you'll get things done, and sometimes you'll be in a coasting mood. Make sure that you obsess over doing really good work over a period of time, so you can buy yourself the freedom and trust to enjoy Slow Productivity.