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Thank you for writing this. It's not that I have many years of experience in the field, but the more experience I get, the more I understand that it's easier (m
by dondraper36 5y ago
Thank you for writing this. It's not that I have many years of experience in the field, but the more experience I get, the more I understand that it's easier (mentally) to accept that I can concentrate on few foundational subfields without criticizing myself for not being proficient in multiple aspects.
With my current programming language, I feel sort of productive, but then I find an article or a talk by someone infinitely more knowledgeable than I am, and that generates self-doubt.
- gdulli 5y agoA lot of blogging is shallow or wrong or irrelevant even if it is high quality. Knowledge is free, knowledge alone isn't important or very impressive. We don't get self doubt from not finishing the encyclopedia. You could be in the top 5% out of millions of engineers but that still leaves many who are better than you. You can go your whole life never running out of stress because there's some hypothetical way to be better. But that's a choice. It's not worth living in self doubt or pressure to catch up to the absolute top. There's no super bowl to win. You only need so much tech knowledge before your actual limiting factors are wisdom of how to apply it, which only comes with time, or non-technical development.