Stop collecting skills: learn by building, measure by problems solved
_jaydeepkarale · x · 2026-10-14
The author argues that accumulating tutorials and saved articles creates an illusion of productivity. Better to learn in response to something you want to build: profile and cache to speed up an API, or deploy and break an app to understand Kubernetes. Courses still help, but only when applied. Measure progress by problems you can now solve, not technologies collected.
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