It’s amazing how much you can learn from casual friends. Find a person at the office who knows things and offer to buy them a beer. Likely you will gather more from that exchange than if you had spent that same time studying.
Now that you mention it, becoming friends with amazing programmers helps as well. I have one friend who complains about low latency and C++ programming all the time. By simply caring about him and listening to his frustrations, I am learning.
To pull this type of advice off consciously though seems to be quite tough, but it might serve as some guideline.
100% A lot of the valuable knowledge isn’t written down somewhere and it doesn’t have an easy “key” for you to index it with. Shared learning is powerful
To pull this type of advice off consciously though seems to be quite tough, but it might serve as some guideline.