That's a smart thing to do... I had spent several years in this startup bubble - both physically and information-wise - and still do to some degree. So it happ

That's a smart thing to do... I had spent several years in this startup bubble - both physically and information-wise - and still do to some degree. So it happened to me that I talked to people I knew to some degree, that have very little technical technical understanding and then half a year later they tell me how they deep dived into some hard to get technology. That frustrated me a lot and it took me quite some time to understand that they just went step by step through tutorials or fully finished boilerplates with doing very little on top on own initiative. I remember this one guy even starting to blog about advanced Machine learning techniques on LinkedIn. > Avoid blogs, forums, podcasts, social media pages, news sites that only > focus on the 1% of startups that make it 'big' seemingly overnight. I'm starting to think that Hacker News is one of them. Of course a lot of the information here is very new and up-to-date, and oftentimes I learn from articles and comments (obviously) things that are relevant for work and people like me working in this industry. But on the other hand I get the impression that I was much happier fiddling around with technology before I touched this startup bubble and one year after started reading HN at least once a day.