The first post is somewhat meta and shows how to build the site in AWS using Terraform
Doesn't ask from the team things that he wouldn't or isn't capable of doing.
And as many of the other comments have said you are there for the team. They will produce the real value.
What can you do to get them all the things they need to succeed? What can you do to shield them from the nonsense? Poor requirements, unnecessary meetings.
I think you want to give chances to fail but also provide that safety net so they don't fail too hard.
- Learn a foreign language, again 6 months is a perfect amount of time. Highly rewarding.
- Work on holes in knowledge, build a self-course around it. Algorithms, dbs, whatever.
- Pickup an new programming language.
- Build a side project, doesn't have to be commercially viable, could be open source or not. Build a redis replacement for no other reason than to understand it.
- Travel. I understand the constraint of wife/kids, but there are ways to fit it in. Don't have to live in Southeast Asia, but travel, I feel is a great brain boost. Awesome rush of new.
While unlike the lisp syntax, I think you are right, more people could use it if there was regular syntax.
I run a few calculations over and over again, and got tired of doing so. So I made a little app, the kicker is that the calculations are expressed in lispy like syntax. I thought HN might enjoy it. It is free and yes needs work. I did the absolute minium to get it out.http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/candlestickcalc/id485900364?ls=1&mt=8