Solve the Hard Problems
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John Swaringen
Your English teacher would be disappointed. It’s Practice not Practise. But overall I like the ideas you present. It’s a lot of food for thought. Thanks!
Nick
Nice article. Made a very good point. Kudoos!
Max
Thanks a lot for this smart and inspirational article.
A happy New Year!
Rama
Thanks Drew for the great post.
This point “Get good at what you do. Practise your skills and don’t just flit from one shiny thing to the next.” makes sense . Its a life boat for anyone who is struggling to stride through the sea of technology choices and helps to stay focused.
Wright
Nice article… Good thoughts and Ideas…
Steve
Great article, really motivates one to think things though before starting.
Looking forward to more articles from you
Cheers
Steve
Dave Mellett
Strongly agree Drew. Back to school John, Drew is right with practise!
Cedric Markwatson
It’s truth; practice makes a man perfect. Really awesome points you have discussed in this post.
Matt Collins
Thanks for the thought-provoking article, Drew! I think you make a really important point about carefully choosing where you spend your time and what you learn.
Do you have any favourite ways of making the ‘what to learn’ choice?
One thing I like to do is to try to get a sense of the popularity of different technologies by looking at things like Google Trends , the “DB-Engines ranking page”: http://db-engines.com/en/ranking and BuiltWith stats
Stefan
Great stuff. Cheers
Indeed, getting good at some one thing is better than being about average at everything. Less is cool but I think the reason Sass has become more relevant now is because the new Bootstrap makes use of it (if I’m not mistaken).
David