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Googling is important, and I hear it everywhere, but in my opinion "deep work", learning the basics, and focus is just as important. You can't google yourself

Googling is important, and I hear it everywhere, but in my opinion "deep work", learning the basics, and focus is just as important. You can't google yourself out of every situation. You must be willing to dive deep into a topic, read a lot, think and understand things well. What googling often means is that you just open on the top 10 hits, scroll through, read two paragraphs, and if the solution is not immediately clear, you go to the next page...

commandlinefan 5y ago
> You can't google yourself out of every situation. I attended a user group presentation on Hadoop a while back (back when Hadoop was pretty new) and the guy giving the presentation was talking about how difficult troubleshooting was. One woman in the front said, "but whenever there's a problem, why don't you just google the error message?" The presenter (and most of us in the audience) were struck by the horrifying realization that not only had she never had to resolve a problem that "googling the error message" couldn't fix, it literally didn't occur to her that that could happen. (And yes, she was a project manager).
Taylor_OD 5y ago
Right. Often I find myself moving away from pages that actually have the content that I need. I just have not read them fully or actually understood the information. Googling is part of the skill, actually digging into results is another one that is just as valuable.