I am always humbled by how much I must learn to be able to reach the level which makes me truly confident in my skills. Maybe I have just romanticized this - maybe it's never gonna happen that I'd be a "master" of a technology for it flies by too fast and there is always an improved Version to learn.
I have started to follow a certain half-formed thought which tells me to focus on One particular version and learn things in a Context, make them as fun as they can be, but the thoughts still are not that well formed. The result being that, instead of keeping up with all the wonderful changes in Python3.5 etc I'd much rather grow comfortable in Python3.4 and same goes for all the other such technologies.
I am a huge fan of project-and-context oriented learning. For every function I come across in Python Standard Library, I try to imagine a situation where this function would really be useful.
All that I do can be summarized in one of the following three, LEARN-EXPLORE-BUILD. This is the how I make tame all the confusion and prioritize the projects I need to work on.
I have had a wonderful exposure to the importance of Soft-skills and the Business oriented planning side of things but I find that I truly can't feel competent and comfortable unless I know that I can build the thing myself. The "Hard-skills" are the ones which, I feel, I must prioritize over the Soft-skills which can of course be improved upon anytime, really.
I become more and more convinced by the day that I must really learn Web Development and, atleast become quite good and capable at various aspects of it, before I focus exclusively on the Non-Technological aspects of things. I only wish to work with people who help me grow and who are atleast as good as me. Right now there is a huge gap in this, not in a good way. There's a stark ( and least understood, it seems) difference between a "Manager" and a "Leader". I'd much rather be the latter, who is right there at the place where most exiting action takes place.
I have started to follow a certain half-formed thought which tells me to focus on One particular version and learn things in a Context, make them as fun as they can be, but the thoughts still are not that well formed. The result being that, instead of keeping up with all the wonderful changes in Python3.5 etc I'd much rather grow comfortable in Python3.4 and same goes for all the other such technologies.
I am a huge fan of project-and-context oriented learning. For every function I come across in Python Standard Library, I try to imagine a situation where this function would really be useful.
All that I do can be summarized in one of the following three, LEARN-EXPLORE-BUILD. This is the how I make tame all the confusion and prioritize the projects I need to work on.
I have had a wonderful exposure to the importance of Soft-skills and the Business oriented planning side of things but I find that I truly can't feel competent and comfortable unless I know that I can build the thing myself. The "Hard-skills" are the ones which, I feel, I must prioritize over the Soft-skills which can of course be improved upon anytime, really.
I become more and more convinced by the day that I must really learn Web Development and, atleast become quite good and capable at various aspects of it, before I focus exclusively on the Non-Technological aspects of things. I only wish to work with people who help me grow and who are atleast as good as me. Right now there is a huge gap in this, not in a good way. There's a stark ( and least understood, it seems) difference between a "Manager" and a "Leader". I'd much rather be the latter, who is right there at the place where most exiting action takes place.
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