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I'm a twenty something, mostly self taught software engineer/dev(started as a kid), a bit of a jack of all trades, but mostly doing fullstack JS development for a startup right now.

Mostly have a hacker mindset I guess, resourceful, autonomous, able to find messy quick fixes to huge problems, I guess I could code pretty much anything that is actually feasible, but I'm not really the kind of guy who could write Fizzbuzz Enterprise Edition without loosing my mind.

This can create some tensions with management.

I don't have much time right now, if I had to read ONE book about software engineering, what would you suggest?

My mid/long term goal would be freelancing/bootstrapping/entrepreneurship

I've always struggled to make friends, in college I've managed to befriend a few like-minded weirdos after a year or two of loneliness, but all of that fell apart after the first covid lockdowns, we all split all over the country or just lost contact.

The only people I could consider friends are living in places that I do not wish to ever get back to.

And I actually plan on moving again, because my current city is getting on my nerves.

My only social interactions for the last 2 or 3 years, were hookups/short flings, but no friendship or parties of any kind.

How do you manage to build a new social circle every time?

I have a hundred ideas and a dozen half finished projects, I haven't shipped anything in so long.

Whenever I start working on something I get new ideas that seems better, and I get distracted.

Sometimes I'm also spending so much time trying to decide between multiple things to build that I end up doing nothing

How do you manage? Do you have any advice?

Over the past 3 years I launched maybe 2/3 very basic sites, I rarely complete anything actually complex and always jump to something new before I'm done