Journal: 2025 in Review: Professional: clarify a sentence

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 Joining Vanta was, of course, a big change from what I had spent the preceding year and a half doing, and a big change even from my time at LinkedIn. There's a huge difference between doing the same basic kind of work at a megacorporation and doing it at a hypergrowth startup. I wrote a bit [about joining Vanta](https://v5.chriskrycho.com/journal/next-vanta/) when I started, and I noted that “hypergrowth” through the 1,000 employee mark represented “a new set of challenges and opportunities” and that has certainly proven out.
 
-Most of my work this year has been focused on making both our codebase and our processes scale. That meant everything from getting into nitty gritty details of our use of TypeScript in the codebase and solving nasty type checking performance problems to leading one of our cross-cutting initiatives. I have done all sorts of other things along the way, too, unsurprisingly, from mentoring other engineers, to doing design and architecture sessions with other teams as they tackle rewrites of important parts of the application, to an awful lot of interviews. It has been *busy*.
+Most of my work this year has been focused on making both our codebase and our processes scale. That meant everything from getting into nitty gritty details of our use of TypeScript in the codebase and solving nasty type checking performance problems to leading one of our cross-cutting all-engineering initiatives. I have done all sorts of other things along the way, too, unsurprisingly, from mentoring other engineers, to doing design and architecture sessions with other teams as they tackle rewrites of important parts of the application, to an awful lot of interviews. It has been *busy*.
 
 Perhaps the most striking part of these first 8 months at Vanta was looking around and realizing that I am not only a leader, but one of the most senior and experienced leaders at the company. I have been writing software professional since some of my colleagues were in elementary and middle school. There comes a point in all of our lives where we find that we are not just grown-ups, but indeed the people on whose shoulders much of the responsibility falls, because there is no one else who is going to solve any given set of problems. Often no one else even has the experience and context to *see* the problems, still less to figure out how to fix them. That point is one well-taken in general for folks in this age bracket! (More on this some other time soon!)