Learning - No Kill Switch

4 months agoin Learning, Self-Development

Learn like a toddler AKA "The Super Mario effect"

How do you learn and expand your skills since you've graduated and started your professional career? Obviously, a blog post is a one-way communication, so I don't know your answer, but let me tell you what I expect. Generalizing a…

4 years agoin Learning, passion, Self-Development

Quit "playing with". It's the goals, that drive us.

August 2015 Me: Hey dude, how's it going? Whatcha doin'? Dude: Playing with Docker, cool stuff. Sniffing around, trying to figure out things. December 2015 Me: Hey dude, how are things? Doin' anything interesting lately? Dude: Playing with Docker, neat…

5 years agoin Architecture, Learning, personal

Proudly breaking things since 2001

The Formula IMHO tech skills are 10% talent + 20% engineering common-sense + 20% theoretical knowledge + 50% practical experience. If I've under-estimated any of these, it's most likely (still) the practical experience. Needless to say - it's not ANY practical experience. Going…

7 years agoin Learning, Conference, Training, Self-Development

How to spend you training budget (if you have some) weasely, ... erhm, I mean 'wisely'

You all know how this business is alike: if you’re not learning, you’re getting out of the game quickly - knowledge that is more than 3 years old is pretty much worthless. That’s why…