Comment by Wowfunhappy

Comment by Wowfunhappy 2 days ago

I agree, and I can actively feel myself slipping (and perhaps more critically, not learning new skills I would otherwise have been forced to learn). It's a big problem, but somewhat orthogonal to "what is the quickest way to solve the task currently in front of me."

kryogen1c a day ago

> but somewhat orthogonal to "what is the quickest way to solve the task currently in front of me."

That depends on if you ignore the future. You are never just solving the problem in front of you; you should always act in a way that propagates positivity forward in time.

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dcow a day ago

Some jobs require investment in the future. Some do not. That’s just reality. Not white how I feel about it personally, but I think there is a fair amount of the developer trade that is operational.

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ori_b 2 days ago

Which needs to be balanced with "How do I maintain my ability to keep solving tasks quickly?"

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AbstractH24 a day ago

The thing i struggle with is I feel like it’s hard to lock into which skill to learn properly. Which so much changing so quickly and it becoming easy to learn things superficially.

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