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Means to an end. I'd work in a team that prioritises resume-driven development for about a year, to brush myself up on all the new stuff. I think it'd be foolis

Means to an end. I'd work in a team that prioritises resume-driven development for about a year, to brush myself up on all the new stuff. I think it'd be foolish not to, honestly. It comes down to whether you see the software you write or yourself as the important product of writing software. Paradoxically, I see myself as the most important product. Usually my work is a tradeoff between being productive and teaching myself. If I'm being too productive, I back off and experiment more and teach myself concepts.

weatherlite 5y ago
> being productive and teaching myself You can learn Kafka, Map Reduce, Elixir, DynamoDB and shiny new JS framework X like Meteor or whatever, or you can just go deeper on the fundamentals and the traditional tech you already know (learning SQL to a deeper level, becoming really good in Java/.NET/PHP/vanilla JS etc etc). I think the job market has room for both; and to me the second path is more enjoyable and sustainable but to each his own.