I always see this on job applications for IT and such. I’m wondering, how do you stay up to date?
While everybody hops on the newest trends I just try to understand the technology I am working with right now in Projects. Keeps me from wasting time with buzzwords and trends that are going to be obsolete in a couple of years.
If there is nothing new going on I usually pick a topic that I am interested in, get a good old book and read it. Usually this is knowledge not too related to my everyday work. This helps to have broad technical knowledge. Helps me heavily in my projects and everyday life.
But I have to admit I don’t apply for jobs 😉
News sites listed here https://wiki.tilde.fun/guide/news#information-technology-it
I agree with your limited-set:
TheRegister & Ars Technica are the 2 that give the highest quality overview,
and yeah, Phoronix is kinda required for Linux news,
and … how the hell could churning more be somehow increasing one’s productivity??
Stephen R. Covey’s truth about…
- the bigger one’s Circle of Concern…
- the smaller one’s Circle of Influence…
one must Focus, or one is just mindlessly dissipating one’s finite strength.
Limit one’s inputs, to quality overview points, and know which other-sites to hit, for specific digging-down into some specialty,
( Leonard Susskind’s lectures, on yt, e.g. for mental exercise: his “Time As A Fractal Flow” one is awesome, when the lightbulb goes on, at the end )
and then you win most.
Never let sand into your gears, in other words, eh?
Keeping all the “misc sand” out from one’s “gears” makes one more productive.
Oh, also www.SemiAccurate.com for the semiconductor foundry industry news, if Demerjian’s still updating that ( he’s scooped the industry toooo many times to let that one escape being important! )
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Thanks for the addition of semiaccurate.com! Will add this if I don’t forget.
I don’t. I’m not in a decision making position where having that knowledge would be beneficial. I’m here for a paycheck. Period.
