I've been self-improving at full capacity for 15 years straight (20 years if you count school years were I was distracted by school work). I basically worked wi

I've been self-improving at full capacity for 15 years straight (20 years if you count school years were I was distracted by school work). I basically worked with every piece of software you can imagine. Countless programming languages, C++ game programming, shaders, artificial neural networks (implemented from scratch), frontend, backend, microcontrollers (ATMEL), proof of stake blockchains, large range of databases, vector databases, kubernetes, TCP, websockets... I built successful open source projects, I implemented a lamport signature library from scratch with an improvement from Ralph Merkle to cut the signature size by half and also implemented a merkle signature tree library for key-reuse. I implemented a decentralised deterministic orderbook and DEX to trade between quantum-resistant blockchains which I also built from scratch... At the end of the day experience doesn't really matter. Socializing is far more important. You don't need much skill to go places. Most people who do well don't that know much outside of their niche. You don't need to be hustling like crazy to be a leading expert in one narrow domain.