Learn some scheme and go through SICP. Real eye opener!
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#22Understanding statistics (and how to cheat with them).
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#23Kubernetes.. almost all the companies are on it or looking at it in one way or another.
I like Docker, I like microservices, but I feel like I'm just not excited about Kubernetes itself. There seems to be a "bullshit complexity" that people add to it that I really don't think is going to stick. But, I really do like the "GitOps" experience. A merge to a master branch is a deploy. Should I just get over this perception and learn Kubernetes, or could I find joy and professional usefulness out of another tool?
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#24Starting conversations with strangers. Squat and deadlift. Eating healthier. Doing something kind for someone else every day. Honesty. Listening to people you disagree with. Driving safer (this is the most dangerous thing we do on a regular basis). Meditation.
Honesty is not a skill, lying successfully is.
Neither is kindness. (And forced kindness can be patronizing.)
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#25- Speaking and writing skills
- Listening and soft skills
- how your business operates so you can have a bigger contribution
- learn to get to know your colleagues as people
- learn how to present technical topics to decision makers
- learn to let go (and empathize with the other POV) if a decision doesn’t go your way
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#26Here is my personal list as an embedded developer:
Embedded Linux: seems to be a growing field in embedded engineering as single board Linux computers are getting smaller and cheeper
Amazon IoT core: there are a lot of capabilities to understand! Luckily Amazon does seem to have some training available.
Advanced C debugging and building: with embedded c it is pretty easy to let the IDE hold your hand when building and debugging, but I would like to learn more about makefiles, linker scripts, and scripting gdb for advanced debugging.
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#27Marketing is a big one for me. Building a great product means nothing if you can’t reach your target audience. And I don’t mean learning how to used Facebook or Google to run ads, I mean the theory behind marketing. I would like to read more books similar to the 22 immutable laws of marketing by Al Ries and Jack Trout
I recommend watching thefutur (Chris Do) youtube channel. A lot of useful info.
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#28Starting conversations with strangers. Squat and deadlift. Eating healthier. Doing something kind for someone else every day. Honesty. Listening to people you disagree with. Driving safer (this is the most dangerous thing we do on a regular basis). Meditation.
Learn to accept death and read the myth of sysphus if you haven't read.
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#29play the bagpipe
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#30Learn a another human language. You don’t have to be good at it or even able to converse. Languages are systems of thinking as much as they are systems of communication. Some thoughts only make sense in a given language! The process of learning a language builds cognitive skills and perhaps fights cognitive decline. If you have absolutely no “ear” for human language start with Esperanto and work your way to additiona…
As a fellow language lover I second the suggestion, but not the reasoning. What's your evidence for "some thoughts only make sense in a given language"? From what I've read, this isn't agreed upon in the linguistic community. As for Esperanto, it's heavily biased towards Western speakers, so it wouldn't necessarily be easy to start with for someone whose native language is non-Western.