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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
by scifi 6y ago
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.
- mettamage 6y agoNow 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.
- _curious_ 6y agoSo true...there's a ton of 'tribal knowledge' locked up in all our heads ready to be released at any time...
- AbenezerMamo 6y ago100% 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