This article speaks to me a lot because I have been meaning to become more of a generalist, cause my role in security (specifically web-bot detection) seems to be too narrow of a niche, which is fine while it lasts, but doesn't seem too resilient to change..

But I also do not wish to get into leetcode type-stuff.. so I have been thinking maybe getting some devops/sre/cloud-infra type-stuff.. not-sure.. if anyone else has been through this, it would be great to hear how you transitioned..

If you have or can make the time, some side projects can go a long way. Mainly to find out what you are actually interested in. I usually give myself some guard rails as to not spend too much time one one thing (perhaps say a month) and then see where that takes me.

Then, I write about the project for two reasons: I get an article out of it that I can share _and_ I get to digest the project as a whole.

Just pick anything that seems interesting and build something. Later, you can even build on top of earlier projects.