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I think one of the great takeaways is his quote: > Maybe it’s overconfidence, but I have a mentality that another human figured it out, so I can too, even if m

I think one of the great takeaways is his quote: > Maybe it’s overconfidence, but I have a mentality that another human figured it out, so I can too, even if maybe it takes me longer Sometimes I explain what I do in software. "There is no magic. I don't like when there is magic. Some people do but it leaves me feeling unsure about what my code will do. Instead I tend to work very slowly at first, seeing what each little piece of code does and slowly seeing all the pieces work together. There's an important tool that I'm shocked to sometimes discover not all developers use - debugging. It's really just having the computer execute one line of code at a time and being able to see what the computer sees, and understand how things work at that level." Lithography is a black box to me... but of course it doesn't have to be. So it's exciting to see someone invest time and assemble the physical tools to learn this dark art from the comfort of their garage.

2OEH8eoCRo0 5y ago
What one fool can do, another can.
emadabdulrahim 5y ago
This is something I've struggled with my whole life and still do to this day. I've had one of the worst educations, considering Egypt is at the bottom of the barrel for it's schooling system. So by the age of 25, I realize I haven't learned anything substantial. I've managed to escape that somehow and now been working at high growth companies as a Deisnger and SW developer in SF. Yet, because I'm basically self-taught and don't have good foundation in many topics such as Math, Compilers, and other important topics, I find myself extremely intimidated to approach such fields. For one, I realize I'll need to invest a lot of time to grasp them. Second, I get this feeling of anxiety that I'll never be able to get to the level I wish to be. Anxiety that can sometimes reach the level of a panic attack. It sounds dramatic and maybe even pathetic to admit that about myself, but I'm still trying to figure out how to not get so worked up about that stuff when I'm learning and feeling hopelessly stuck to fully understand something. Needless to say, I have a lot of work to do on myself.
- kilroy123 5y ago
  Just tackle it by doing 30-60 minutes a day of self study. After a year you'll rack up hundreds of hours of studying. Keep that up for 10 years and you're at thousands of hours of studying. Plus all the experience on the job. That'll compound for sure.

2OEH8eoCRo0 5y ago

What one fool can do, another can.

emadabdulrahim 5y ago

This is something I've struggled with my whole life and still do to this day. I've had one of the worst educations, considering Egypt is at the bottom of the barrel for it's schooling system. So by the age of 25, I realize I haven't learned anything substantial. I've managed to escape that somehow and now been working at high growth companies as a Deisnger and SW developer in SF. Yet, because I'm basically self-taught and don't have good foundation in many topics such as Math, Compilers, and other important topics, I find myself extremely intimidated to approach such fields. For one, I realize I'll need to invest a lot of time to grasp them. Second, I get this feeling of anxiety that I'll never be able to get to the level I wish to be. Anxiety that can sometimes reach the level of a panic attack. It sounds dramatic and maybe even pathetic to admit that about myself, but I'm still trying to figure out how to not get so worked up about that stuff when I'm learning and feeling hopelessly stuck to fully understand something. Needless to say, I have a lot of work to do on myself.

kilroy123 5y ago
Just tackle it by doing 30-60 minutes a day of self study. After a year you'll rack up hundreds of hours of studying. Keep that up for 10 years and you're at thousands of hours of studying. Plus all the experience on the job. That'll compound for sure.