This is indeed my current journey! I’m replacing gaming with coding and now I even forget to game most of the days. Yet, I’m excited about the day with web development :) Thanks for sharing this. Helps to know the context behind my process.
What a self-important load of crap this is. Yes, having fun stuff is good, but you can get a dopamine hit from valuing every win through all the challenges. 9 languages makes you relatively young or inexperienced. If what you list here are still targets you are a noob.
Getting paid to learn is always a good start, so learn to be productive in something valued, use all the tools and experience of colleagues you can to grow quickly, keep learning new paradigms and always know that if you stop learning you are dead in this industry. The key is to still be pushing and growing decades later, not 5 minutes in to think you need more dopamine fixes to tap your ego.
Why would you call this crap? You havent published a single article, at least on substack, so what's the yardstick here? Your advice towards the end are practical and pragmatic but you could have cut the crap part out. No hard feelings, Happy New Year.
I'm too busy continuing learning to tap my ego publishing. I called it crap because I think it misleads from the key skills required to enjoy a career spanning decades, as that is possible but requires getting through the hard challenges with incremental improvements and valuing every win. I have trained plenty of people and don't think your article is helping people to achieve all they can.
I don't wish you ill, and indeed I hope you have a happy New Year too. I do generally wish everyone well, but I call BS when I see it.
We need to slip in some dopamine whilst the going is tough most of all, rather than shying away from big challenges, if we are going to be our best selves. Handling the routine bits too is part of real work, and you can build self-worth by being dependable, refining and streamlining processes, etc. without just seeking novelty.
I'm worried that your article may push people to change jobs when the going is tough or the tasks become routine, rather than persisting and raising the standards day by day. Hence needing to call out where I felt it was misguiding, where indeed I usually don't publish publicly.
I hope this helps explain that I'm not trying to be mean, but rather to add an alternate opinion that may help some too. Some will take the choppy career path and more value your input, and some will do well from that anyway, but some may find my insight useful too. Just don't go measuring people by how much they publish when that isn't their job nor interest.
Sorry if I was a bit harsh/blunt it the way I started off that response, but you chose to air your opinion to the public and don't actually base from science on dopamine reward patterns so some of it is just opinion presented as fact and deserves to be highlighted as flawed for that.
Ultimately I wish you and your readers joy in development whatever path they take, and hope you and they can still value it decades later as I continue to do. Remembering it was your hobby and keeping that element alongside the hard slog is good, and this article could be rephrased to that to help more people get here still with the love of code and tech undiminished.
This is indeed my current journey! I’m replacing gaming with coding and now I even forget to game most of the days. Yet, I’m excited about the day with web development :) Thanks for sharing this. Helps to know the context behind my process.
These things are really working for me❤️
Love your efforts and content. Keep helping us. stay blessed
What a self-important load of crap this is. Yes, having fun stuff is good, but you can get a dopamine hit from valuing every win through all the challenges. 9 languages makes you relatively young or inexperienced. If what you list here are still targets you are a noob.
Getting paid to learn is always a good start, so learn to be productive in something valued, use all the tools and experience of colleagues you can to grow quickly, keep learning new paradigms and always know that if you stop learning you are dead in this industry. The key is to still be pushing and growing decades later, not 5 minutes in to think you need more dopamine fixes to tap your ego.
Why would you call this crap? You havent published a single article, at least on substack, so what's the yardstick here? Your advice towards the end are practical and pragmatic but you could have cut the crap part out. No hard feelings, Happy New Year.
I'm too busy continuing learning to tap my ego publishing. I called it crap because I think it misleads from the key skills required to enjoy a career spanning decades, as that is possible but requires getting through the hard challenges with incremental improvements and valuing every win. I have trained plenty of people and don't think your article is helping people to achieve all they can.
I don't wish you ill, and indeed I hope you have a happy New Year too. I do generally wish everyone well, but I call BS when I see it.
We need to slip in some dopamine whilst the going is tough most of all, rather than shying away from big challenges, if we are going to be our best selves. Handling the routine bits too is part of real work, and you can build self-worth by being dependable, refining and streamlining processes, etc. without just seeking novelty.
I'm worried that your article may push people to change jobs when the going is tough or the tasks become routine, rather than persisting and raising the standards day by day. Hence needing to call out where I felt it was misguiding, where indeed I usually don't publish publicly.
I hope this helps explain that I'm not trying to be mean, but rather to add an alternate opinion that may help some too. Some will take the choppy career path and more value your input, and some will do well from that anyway, but some may find my insight useful too. Just don't go measuring people by how much they publish when that isn't their job nor interest.
Sorry if I was a bit harsh/blunt it the way I started off that response, but you chose to air your opinion to the public and don't actually base from science on dopamine reward patterns so some of it is just opinion presented as fact and deserves to be highlighted as flawed for that.
Ultimately I wish you and your readers joy in development whatever path they take, and hope you and they can still value it decades later as I continue to do. Remembering it was your hobby and keeping that element alongside the hard slog is good, and this article could be rephrased to that to help more people get here still with the love of code and tech undiminished.
Great tips Ashish. You got a new follower.
Nice post!
Have you read Atomic Habits? Many of these concepts are explained there.
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