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📣 rayxi271828

What Skills/Skill Upgrades You're Getting in 2021?


Preferably something that can be measured with milestones (e.g.: foreign language exam, either you pass or you don't), "stretches your brain" in a different way (so if you already know Java, picking C# may not be that much of a stretch), and reasonably useful for your life (but not necessarily work).

Mine so far: 1. Aiming to pass B2 exam for French (meets all 3 criteria above) 2. TLA+, hard to measure progress, stretches my brain in a different way, but practical utility is dubious 3. Category Theory, similar to TLA+, but even harder to find pragmatic applications.

Am keen to hear from others.

  👤 brtkdotse Accepted Answer ✓
I’m actually doing the opposite - I’m dropping everything JavaScript related and focusing whole-heartedly on .Net and Blazor. I have no beef with js, but the mental load keeping two ecosystems, communities, tool chains and concepts is too much for me. Maybe it’s age, maybe it’s something else, but I can tell there’s limited space in my head and JavaScript doesn’t spark enough joy to stay.
👤 mkranjec
Blog more, at least one quality post per month to improve my writing skills. Learn more about investing and taxes. Not sure on how to quantify latter.
👤 detaro
Longer-term I had some plans regarding organizing events, but 2021 also looks dicey if it will allow any of that properly so putting that back for now.

I'd like to develop an electronics project from design to small-scale production run (not necessarily for profit, but hopefully covering production expenses).

👤 person_of_color
I want to learn Rust

I want to change career from SWE to Quant Trading.