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by xiaoma 4000 days ago
The single best advice I've seen was from Marc-André Cournoyer: https://youtu.be/ijZ-n5THbEM?t=10m19s

tldr; Instead of pure "learning-driven" activities, tackle side projects. You'll cover a smaller problem space but learn it much better and have something to show at the end. Copy something that already exists, build it from scratch with few to no dependencies, possibly make it better in one single dimension.

Actual examples Marc built that changed his career: Mongrel clone in under 500 lines of code Ant clone in under 400 lines of code