Ask HN: What is your learning plan for 2020?

Oops that was what I meant! Thanks for the recommendations.

Do you know if there are any books that are inspired by (or squeals of a sort) to Phoenix Project?

I am not aware of anything that is a sequel to The Phoenix Project itself. In many ways, it seems to be almost the conclusion of the idea of agile/lean software development borrowing from the classical ideas of ToC, Lean, Toyota Production System, etc.

If you want more readings that are not novels, but cover translating the ideas from manufacturing/production to IT and software development I'd suggest any books by Mary and Tom Poppendieck [0] and to explore their "bookshelf" [1]. The bookshelf is in reverse chronological order, so don't take the order to be an indication of anything positive or negative.

[0] http://www.poppendieck.com/people.htm

[1] http://www.poppendieck.com/reference.htm

I think they're pretty well-known, but my part of industry likes to pretend that nothing has changed since 1985. So I'm busy reading what I can and dragging us into the modern era. I came across them via references from some other book or site. I don't recall where, now.

Last year I learned the basics of Elixir and wrote some toy projects with it. This year I'm starting to delve into the more advanced aspects of Elixir and I'm hoping to get into Elixir web development with Phoenix before the end of the year.

As part of the Elixir learning process, I've been writing a series called Learn With Me: Elixir at https://inquisitivedeveloper.com/, so that other people can learn Elixir along with me.

At first the idea was just to help other people out in learning the language by explaining it from my perspective as I learned it, since there aren't large numbers of Elixir learning resources out there, but I found out that writing about Elixir and explaining it has been enormously useful in helping me learn. It helps me to think about the topic in more detail and I feel motivated to answer questions that pop up in my head while I'm writing, leading me to understand Elixir better.

So for anyone wanting to learn something, I recommend writing about it as well. Attempting to explain it to others has a learning value all on its own.

I'm trying to get more comfortable with ML (I have an okay theoretical understanding of quite a few things, but very little experience writing actual code).

My plan is to expose myself to new concepts or go more in depth on things I already know about (planning to go through a few books I have been meaning to, for example), and then whenever my memory fails me about something I already understood, go back to the best resources on that subject that I have saved from the first time I explored it.

This sort of spaced repetition works wonders for me.

I'll then complete a couple of courses to familiarize myself with syntax of at least one commonly used framework (thinking fastai which uses pytorch, give me suggestions if you got a better one).

I've also started reading the SRE book from Google after developing an appreciation for my coworkers who do that sort of thing.

I also want to study music (guitar specifically) but I don't know if I can find a good resource that includes material to study on a weekly basis for example or if I will have to get a tutor.