Sometimes something clicks in your head and changes the way you see things. It’s not that cheap motivation that fades after a week, it’s a real shift in goals and behavior. For me, that moment was when I realized I couldn’t keep coasting in the comfort zone I had built around myself. I’ve been working in IT for many years, but I landed in one of those silos where bureaucracy, legacy systems, and monolithic structures rule. None of these are bad in themselves and have their place in the IT ecosystem, but they don’t fit my interests or my personality. These environments can make you feel secure, but they also tempt you into settling for comfort. And comfort, I learned, can turn into boredom. Boredom into lack of motivation, and that into less productivity and dissatisfaction. ...