[SketchySeaBeast]

In my experience there's often a wide gulf between what you want to learn and what you should probably learn. If you're a software dev think about what you were interested in when you started the career and what you ended up having to learn that you may not have wanted to but you still needed to know just the same. That's the same with other disciplines. It's hard to get those areas being self taught.

[awb]

Interesting, that’s not been my experience.

I’m a self-taught developer and I’ve only focused on areas I’ve been interested in, which has been fun for me.

I wouldn’t be hired as a Sr. Engineer at a FAANG but I was able to build a successful development agency by just following what I wanted to learn about.

But I could see how at enterprise scale how that might not work. But at startup scale it’s been really effective for me.