I've seen enough people try to learn from scratch to know that it isn't as simple as it seems when we stand on our pile of background. It's not impossible knowl

I've seen enough people try to learn from scratch to know that it isn't as simple as it seems when we stand on our pile of background. It's not impossible knowledge to acquire, but to be an effective engineer, there's a ton of stuff you need to know. Maybe try to remember the first time you learned about trivial things like Git, UNIX pipes, closures, big-O complexity, hashing, graph theory, refactoring, MMUs and ADUs, TCP windows, IP, HTTP, MVC, design patterns, encoding formats, queuing theory... there's a ton of "simple" stuff to know, many of which takes a regular person a few concerted days to get comfortable with.