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Does the sheer amount of cool stuff out there feel overwhelming to anyone else? I want to learn this and this and this and that and this and that thing and this
by linuxlizard 8y ago
Does the sheer amount of cool stuff out there feel overwhelming to anyone else? I want to learn this and this and this and that and this and that thing and this other thing over there.
- gglitch 8y agoI'm probably halfway through my career and still feel like a perpetual beginner because of this syndrome. It has brought me many material and intellectual pleasures and tangible benefits, including a decent living; but I increasingly feel like if I want to progress in my career, it's time to specialize a great deal in a tiny subset of my interests. There's real power in being able to say No to things, and real wisdom in knowing what to say No to. I fear I lack both of these! It's vexing in the extreme.
- gnulinux 8y agoBecause of this I can't focus on anything because learning anything feels like it has infinite opportunity cost, spirals into anxiety. My irrational response is to watch Netflix because if I were instead learning X, I would be concerned that I'm not learning Y0, ..., YN for a very large N.