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by huffmsa
2607 days ago
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> I think in most fields the top performers are going to be investing significant effort outside work to practice, learn, and improve themselves throughout their career. Agreed. I spend a lot of free time reading about and discussing technology. Occasionally teach, occasionally do some advising. But I rarely have a side project which consumes my time. I guess the equivalent would be a nurse going and taking a shift at another hospital. |
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You're looking at the wrong profession. A nurse can't "just" go and start nursing stuff. Programmers are like carpenters - they can just go and start building stuff for themselves, using the same tools and skills they use at work. Except they also have an industry-imposed, medicine-style continued learning requirement due to how fast the field keeps changing.