Serguey Asael Shinder – IT Professional

I spent my early career
collecting skills like trophies.

This framework. That language.
The specific trick that made me,
for a moment,
the person who knew the thing.

And one by one,
I watched those trophies expire.

The framework fell out of fashion.
The language got replaced.
The trick got absorbed into a tool
that anyone could run.

For a while that felt like loss,
like the ground kept dissolving
under whatever I’d just learned to stand on.

Then it reframed itself.

The trophies were never the asset.
The collecting was.

What actually carried me from one era
to the next
wasn’t any single skill.
It was the ability to keep learning new ones,
faster than the old ones died,
without panicking each time
the floor shifted.

That’s the only moat I trust now.
Not what I know today —
that has an expiry date.
But how quickly I can become
good at the next thing.

No tool obsoletes that,
because it’s the very thing
that absorbs every tool
that shows up.

So I still learn the current stack.

But I’ve fallen in love, instead,
with getting good at new things.

That’s the edge
that survives the churn.

– Serguey Asael Shinder