About me

I'm learning to code...

By day I'm a digital marketer and SEO & marketing operations consultant. I work at a SaaS startup, and have been in this space for 10+ years. I enjoy marketing so much that I have a podcast called Humans of Martech.

Like many marketers in the SaaS space, I work closely with developers. As an SEO, I work closely with web development teams.

One of the things I hate most in my career is not being able to do something myself. My ideas always need someone else to execute.

So I started to learn to code.

Feeding curiousity

I started learning to code at the end of 2020. Part of it was out of a personal need to prove I could learn something technical. Part of it was a challenge to dedicate myself to my biggest learning project since learning digital marketing (or, as it feels like now, since University).

I'm a coding hobbyist. I have 4 kids (you read that right), a full-time career I love, and a pdocastt -- I'm learning to code because I deeply enjoy it.

Learning to go slow

My dad always told me to slow down. "Slow down," he'd say. "You don't need to be in a rush!"

Coding has forced me to slow down. If you read Reddit, you'll find that the vast majority of people learning to code are doing so to switch careers. They're motivated and, some of them, can dedicate themselves to this full-time.

That is not me.

You can see my progress as a developer in Projects. Coding has humbled me – as I believe learning anything challenging should.

This blog is both a coding project itself and a creative outlet. I am sharing my journey because I think that other people (not just marketers) are curious about learning to code as a hobby.

Welcome to my experiment!