What I wished I had done more of (regerts) - Learn a language and learn it in depth - Surrounded myself with other developers/designers - Reached out to potential clients with some free work while I was building my portfolio and skills
What I did that made a big difference - Constantly putting myself out of my comfort zone - Learned the command line - Took a chance on a new language (PHP to Ruby) - A lot of work on projects that I had a close connection with - Starting a meetup group - Podcasting
What i am looking to do in the future - Functional languages (taking a chance on a new language, Elixir) - More focus on Javascript - Teaching/mentoring more - Reducing my freelance work