Introduction: Betting on Technologies
Understand approaches to choosing technologies strategically to advance your software career. Learn about the risks of avoiding bets, the value of optimism in tech progress, and how to use lessons from the past to inform your decisions without relying on hindsight bias.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
We’ve talked about finding and settling on an area of focus and when to specialize vs. generalize. Both of these actions implicitly involve betting on a particular technology. Let’s talk about the various approaches to doing this.
Never betting on anything
“You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light.”
- François-René de Chateaubriand
Pessimists dev
First, we should discuss the gloomy specter of the pessimists. A ...