{"id":454553,"date":"2022-05-29T13:00:08","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T10:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/stop-feeling-the-pressure-to-learn-every-new-technology-do-this-instead\/"},"modified":"2022-05-29T13:00:08","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T10:00:08","slug":"stop-feeling-the-pressure-to-learn-every-new-technology-do-this-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/stop-feeling-the-pressure-to-learn-every-new-technology-do-this-instead\/","title":{"rendered":"#Stop feeling the pressure to learn every new technology \u2014 do this instead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a38795277c19\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a38795277c19\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/stop-feeling-the-pressure-to-learn-every-new-technology-do-this-instead\/#%E2%80%9CStop_feeling_the_pressure_to_learn_every_new_technology_%E2%80%94_do_this_instead%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Stop feeling the pressure to learn every new technology \u2014 do this instead&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CStop_feeling_the_pressure_to_learn_every_new_technology_%E2%80%94_do_this_instead%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Stop feeling the pressure to learn every new technology \u2014 do this instead&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-cdn.tnwcdn.com\/image?fit=796%2C417&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn0.tnwcdn.com%2Fwp-content%2Fblogs.dir%2F1%2Ffiles%2F2022%2F05%2Fa-woman-in-an-office-talking-to-a-man.jpeg&amp;signature=9abaa555f1124e06f4064bc135d15c17\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n                            <em>This <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cult.honeypot.io\/reads\/how-to-keep-up-to-date-as-a-software-developer\/\">article<\/a> was originally published on .cult by <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cult.honeypot.io\/contributors\/neil-green\">Neil Green<\/a>. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cult.honeypot.io\/\">.cult<\/a> is a Berlin-based community platform for developers. We write about all things career-related, make original documentaries, and share heaps of other untold developer stories from around the world.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a waste of time to try to learn every new <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a>. Instead, focus on learning how to learn.<\/p>\n<p>                <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/fast.wistia.net\/embed\/iframe\/gpmn9xkc7o?videoFoam=true&amp;autoPlay=true\" title=\"\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wistia_embed\" name=\"wistia_embed\" allowfullscreen=\"\" msallowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The tech industry thrives on the insecurity of software developers. The less a software developer thinks they know, the easier it is to sell them new tech.<\/p>\n<p>Top companies like <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> and Google thrive on this insecurity economy, as it maintains their status as being at the top of the software development hierarchy. These companies present their open source projects as being generous and charitable, but the cold reality is they\u2019re self-serving.<\/p>\n<p>They want you to be using their frameworks and libraries, not their competitors\u2019. The more developers they lock into their ecosystem, the more of the global software development mind-share they own. Their objective is technical dominance, not to make developers more productive.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that top tech companies do not care about software developer productivity should be self-evident. Do you feel productive when you have to switch technologies every two years? Is it in the best interest of your career or company to drop your output to zero every time a new technology trends on Hacker<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> and Twitter?<\/p>\n<p>Software development is a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> of productivity: the more product you can ship to production, the better. Everything that drives the tech economy is reliant on releasing high-quality software that satisfies user needs as quickly as possible. If you\u2019re not good at playing this game, your project or startup will fail. A software developer is a factory unto themselves and stopping to learn every new technology halts the factory\u2019s production.<\/p>\n<p>When I talk to software developers today, the situation is always the same: high anxiety and imposter syndrome with a touch of depression. They feel lost and confused about what to learn and to what degree to learn it. The overt bombardment of \u201cYou are not good enough to be a real software developer\u201d comes at them from every angle. Training courses, conferences, articles, tweets, and peer pressure reinforces their fear that what they know is not good enough.<\/p>\n<p>The fear of missing out hits our colleagues who are self-taught or fresh out of code school the hardest. The industry makes them feel inadequate and worthless, all for the sake of pushing the thinly veiled agenda of \u201cLearn our technologies so that people know we\u2019re the best tech company.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The battlefront of web technologies is where we have the largest body count of software developers with impostor syndrome. The irony is that the latest technologies are mainly niche solutions that are not <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>ly <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>licable.<\/p>\n<p>Many companies need traditional websites and nothing more. There are many high-paying jobs where a master of PHP and jQuery would be orders of magnitude more effective than a novice in React or Angular. However, PHP and jQuery are \u201cold\u201d and \u201cdead,\u201d according to top tech companies. If you don\u2019t stop what you\u2019re doing right now and learn the latest frontend frameworks, you won\u2019t be able to get a job and will end up homeless on the street, so the narrative goes.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, the message of \u201clearn the latest technologies, or you won\u2019t be able to get a job\u201d is not entirely untrue. Technical hiring managers are just as insecure as the software developers they\u2019re trying to hire. They don\u2019t want to have their competency questioned for posting a job that requires PHP and jQuery, even if those are the best technologies for their project. They want to virtue signal to their management that they\u2019re hip to the latest trends, and want to drive innovation at the company.<\/p>\n<p>After all, isn\u2019t adopting new technologies innovation? Of course it isn\u2019t. Innovation doesn\u2019t come from the tool you\u2019re using; it\u2019s a measure of the value of what you produce. When you chase new technologies, you necessarily reduce the rate at which you can build new things, drastically reducing the chances you\u2019ll create anything novel or exciting.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of buying into the self-serving corporate hype train of \u201cTo be cool, you have to learn our latest technologies,\u201d become an expert at learning new things quickly. Learning how to learn is the only critical skill a software developer needs.<\/p>\n<p>Would you rather be the software developer who knows a little bit about every new technology or the person who\u2019s ready to learn how to use the best tool for what they need right now?<\/p>\n<p>The best software developer has no favorite technology and does not follow trends. Their high effectiveness comes from thoroughly understanding the problem before them, and picking the best tool for the job. Is the best tool React? Then learn React. Is the best tool PHP? Then learn PHP.<\/p>\n<p>A software developer must be open to everything, but must only learn what they need when they need it based on the context of their current problem. The alternative is endlessly chasing their tail and ending up a frantic, anxious, unproductive, and ineffective version of themselves that is no good to anyone.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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