I prefer much simpler advice. Keep finding customers (internal or external) and help them solve their problems. Lifelong learning will be a byproduct that will

I prefer much simpler advice. Keep finding customers (internal or external) and help them solve their problems. Lifelong learning will be a byproduct that will take care of itself. Uh, not to be pedantic, but the title is "How to become a software engineer/programmer". He has already explicitly limited the scope of his post to technology, so in this context, "learning" does equate to "learning technology".