Notes

I maintain three lists, “Things I’m Learning”, “Things I Want To Learn”, and “Things I Don’t Care To Learn Right Now”.

• “Things I’m Learning”: Quarterly development plan goals. I like to set a few goals each quarter related to each item, to make sure that I’m making the progress that I want to make. I like to keep a few items on this list, so that my learning goals don’t get too overwhelming within a quarter.
• “Things I Want To Learn”: Something I want to focus on in the future but I don’t have time for it currently. I may still peruse a resource I come across related to this topic and add a few notes, but I don’t try to make a goal related to it. Each quarter I’ll re-evaluate the items and decide if I should move an item between lists.
• “Things I Don’t Care To Learn Right Now”: Things I’ve decided I don’t care about at the moment. It’s easy to get caught up in the hype and feel like you have to pay attention to every piece of content thrown your way. I don’t have time for that, and my efforts would be better spent focusing on the things that I’m excited about. (Note that I added “Right Now” to that list… I will probably change my mind!!)

Learning

Things I’m Learning

• Accessibility
• Azure
• Computer Science History
• Game Development
• Golang
• Mentoring
• Ruby/Rails
• Software Development Ethics

Things I Want To Learn

• Artificial Intelligence
• AWS
• Bash Scripting
• Clean Code
• Code Reviews
• Data
• Data Structures/Algorithms
• Design
• Design Patterns
• Developer Twitter
• Distributed Systems
• Docker
• Engineering Management
• GCP
• Git
• Incident Investigation
• Kubernetes
• Learning
• Machine Learning
• Open Source
• Product Management
• Productivity
• Quantum Computing
• React
• Senior Plus
• System Design
• Time Management
• VIM
• WebAssembly
• Writing

Things I Don’t Care To Learn Right Now

• Blockchain
• New JavaScript Frameworks
• Rust
• Svelte
• Vue