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If you focus on return on investment, you won’t get anywhere. Your child can remind you how to learn something just because it’s there, without concern for retu

If you focus on return on investment, you won’t get anywhere. Your child can remind you how to learn something just because it’s there, without concern for return on investment. The trick is allowing yourself to invest time in things that feel like play without interrupting yourself with thoughts of “but how will I use this?” My opinion at a similar life stage, anyway.

tartoran 6y ago
Im constantly learning something new that has zero returns on investment but the difference is that these things are for my own pleasure. I learn music theory without a particular goal. I paint without a particular goal. I play guitar and keyboard without any goal, I don’t see myself as ever becoming a professional musician. But I do enjoy the journey. What i was refering to is learning shiny tech that lasts for 2 cycles of 2 years then goes dusty. Most times it is convoluted and quirky, unintuitive, filled with jargon and the knowledge doesn’t translate well in other areas. For example I put a month or two of effort to learn Angular 6 or 7 and then did a 4 month project with it. It was fun and enjoyed it but my company decided not to go with Angular anymore. In this sense I don’t regret it but the investment wasn’t really worth it and i’d rather spent the time deepening some other skillset that I could put to use. In my company everybody jumped on the blazor bandwagon. I don’t have a good feeling about it and have 0 motivation to learn it.
- mycall 6y ago
  The knowledge you got from the javascript flavored web components and indexDB and service workers you might have used with Angular will come in handy optimizing wasm/blazor when you realize -- wasm is still a WIP and javascript and DOM libraries are still needed. Also, I'm sure Micrsoft will support more than just C# for blazor (you interested in OCaml or F#?)
2sk21 6y ago
You are so correct! Knowledge that I have acquired just for the love of it has given me the greatest value in my career.

tartoran 6y ago

Im constantly learning something new that has zero returns on investment but the difference is that these things are for my own pleasure. I learn music theory without a particular goal. I paint without a particular goal. I play guitar and keyboard without any goal, I don’t see myself as ever becoming a professional musician. But I do enjoy the journey. What i was refering to is learning shiny tech that lasts for 2 cycles of 2 years then goes dusty. Most times it is convoluted and quirky, unintuitive, filled with jargon and the knowledge doesn’t translate well in other areas. For example I put a month or two of effort to learn Angular 6 or 7 and then did a 4 month project with it. It was fun and enjoyed it but my company decided not to go with Angular anymore. In this sense I don’t regret it but the investment wasn’t really worth it and i’d rather spent the time deepening some other skillset that I could put to use. In my company everybody jumped on the blazor bandwagon. I don’t have a good feeling about it and have 0 motivation to learn it.

mycall 6y ago
The knowledge you got from the javascript flavored web components and indexDB and service workers you might have used with Angular will come in handy optimizing wasm/blazor when you realize -- wasm is still a WIP and javascript and DOM libraries are still needed. Also, I'm sure Micrsoft will support more than just C# for blazor (you interested in OCaml or F#?)

2sk21 6y ago

You are so correct! Knowledge that I have acquired just for the love of it has given me the greatest value in my career.