there is no way you can win it

felipe volpone
2 min readJun 25, 2021
Photo by Philipp Berndt on Unsplash

Because there is no competition going on.

There is not enough of anything or everything.
There are not enough things to do to you be promoted.
There is no way that you will finish all items in your to-do list.
There are not enough books to read to you master that subject.
There are not enough tasks to mark as done to you release that project.

The world is a never-ending cicle of new and shiny things being created.
First, you understand that’s not up to you.
Then, you think that you have the power to change everything.
Finally, comes the realization that there is no way to change all those things.

”Well, I’ll win despite all that.”

First, you see that everybody is running fast, but without any direction.
Then, you realize that you can slow down and still finish the race.
Finally, it comes that there is no race going on.

”Well, I must learn to live like that, then”

First, you seek answers and find none of them.
Then, you seek mentors and masters to help you on your way.
Finally, you realize that they are also in their path and that they can’t provide you any answers.

Because they don’t exist.

If there is something to win, to fight or to hustle, is against your own self.
Your knowledge, wisdom, and ignorance.

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felipe volpone

I’m into distributed systems and how we can make them easier to develop and maintain. Writing code to scale to millions of users @ Ifood, formerly Red Hat .