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YMMV. I chose 'materials' instead of courses specifically since I've found books to be more useful. A course, or any kind of structured learning, is just a foundation. I would stil…

+1. You can easily turn 10 hours of connecting the dots into 2 hours with the right materials. Though in my experience, the courses on Udemy/Udacity and the like have been disappoi…

> "for some writing code itself is an act that clarifies the still-murky concepts and helps to produce a good writeup." This is my philosophy after ~2 years of working on distribut…

Owning 10% doesn't mean you're a peon. At 10% of a 1B company you probably have a good amount of autonomy. Some people take pride in creating products that are widely used + lots o…

A few possible reasons: 1. You can't foresee competition, why give up early. 2. It's a big market, worth a shot even if it fails. 3. Someone thought the project would be good for t…

It sounds like you're trying a lot of out there ideas (volunteering at cafe, open source donations, helping out at hackerspaces, etc). My advice is to try to halt all of that and d…

My incompetent manager got promoted because higher level people on the team left. It's a viable career strategy. It's hard to hire, so if you stick around you'll have more responsi…