What do you do to grow yourself in your career apart from your job ?
like coding hobby projects, open source, reading books, reading blogs etc..care to share your thoughts.
Ask YC: What do you do to excel at your job ?
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#2I make time to correct outside things that annoy or disrupt my work and open source the solutions.
Re: Ask YC: What do you do to excel at your job ?
#3With me, I'm more of a business person than a coding person (though I do code)... So when I'm not explicitly working on the various aspects of my venture I am usually reading blogs and various business publications. I do read books every now and then, more often I read reference manuals =P.
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#4draft in the wake of people who fetishize work.
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#5For me, it's hacking open-source hardware -- specifically, creating small gadgets based on the Arduino platform. After several days of coding, it's nice to switch gears and pick up a soldering gun. There's something magical about a blinking LED that you wired up yourself. How that helps my career, I don't know... but when the robot revolution finally arrives, I'll know how to resolder those suckers.
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#6Hand Coding HTML/CSS
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#7Honest truth, a LOT of what ive learned technology wise is through tinkering around with open source software. It's a great place for people to start understanding web dev, server configuration, moderating, community,etc.
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#8i keep myself abreast of the latest trends and technologies while the other people don't [have time to do so because they're all older people raising families]. so, when it comes to updating the technology of the product, i'm in first chair.
and it worked wonderfully. i get to hack around with cutting edge stuff, building prototypes to see if it works for us.
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#9Read Hacker News
Really though, it's how I learn about what's going on. I don't necessarily learn every new framework that's released here or become an expert on every new web tool - but at least I'm exposed to it.
And I also do the exact opposite: take breaks away from all stimulation and just code on a project until it's done, preferably in something new (framework, language, paradigm) or at least in a new domain.
Re: Ask YC: What do you do to excel at your job ?
#10I set aside a few hours a week to work on a specific project that may lead to great work or not. This is outside of my regular gigs. Other than that I, as my mother-in-law say, "putz" (spell?). You know, I'll paint a little, work out in the shop, definitely hang with family and friends, try a new exercise. You get the picture.