How to decide which technology to learn and invest time in?

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In the video, I discussed the importance of making strategic decisions on which technologies to invest time in based on career stage. For early-career engineers (0-5 years), exploring various technologies is beneficial due to ample time and energy to learn. As one progresses (5+ years), focus and align on technologies relevant to career goals and deep expertise. Emphasized the "hell yes or no" approach for exploring new technologies and the transferability of learning. Balancing depth and breadth in skills is crucial for career growth and success.
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Love the clarity of your thoughts! 🙌

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Such a valuable information. Thank you!

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Excellent points! Keep them coming! You are making us all better engineers Arpit!

[@TheNikhilbhu]

Thanks Arpit, Informative. :)

[@GenZdev]

Greate advice as always sir. Any idea on showing us your paper reading and implementing process for longterm.

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Thank you Aprit for creating such content ♥

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Thanks Arpit, really good video

[@anikghosh3797]

thank you, great advice❤

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Hi Arpit, thank you so much for making this video. nowadays this video will help many experienced engineers and leaders to think differently. Actually, I was looking for this type of guidance.

[@rite2riddhi]

Always so insightful

[@omkarkhatavkar8563]

I always try to hear you, most of time learn new things and much more practical things. Can you please make video for someone wanted to move into leader role managerial role from individual role. How he should approach it?

[@its_Akash_]

this is very insigntfull , thank you.

[@piyushjha8888]

Loved your video . I have a doubt. I am 2 yr+ exp . I was working as Java Fullstack (Servlets , MySQL , bootstrap) in my first year and switched , in second year , am working in ETL Based tool . But I have a keen interest in backend development . What should I do ?

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Once again arpit thank you for bringing this video ❤

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Thank you for this video

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This video is a gem

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great content with simple but effective explanation which gives so much clarity

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Beautiful 👍🏼

[@naruto5437]

some pretty good advice....i am a 10 yr experienced dev and i can say these advice are really good

[@ujjawal_]

Really a gem

[@redrum4486]

I'm a data engineer and learning Rust/Go/Solidity allowed me to earn £100k+ in 2021, something i learnt out of curiousity was very beneficial and my underlying software skills allowed me to learn these new languages quickly so i think learning new languages is always a good thing if it is a trend you see

[@ashutoshpandey4271]

Hi Arpit I am a backend developer with 1+ YOE. I find AI & ML to be interesting(Projects which are launched till now). Is it okay to do courses in it or it's just the hype?

[@bbdatta]

Thankyou nice content

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Sir Make one video for Engineering Student who are in college right now.

[@rohitkarki588]

I think your views are amazing but I would like know how to learn during college days. Everywhere I see things that is amuzing for me like computer graphics, ml, pl research, compilers, etc. How to find which is for me? Do I need to go in depth to the nitty gritty or something else. I am learning Haskell for functional programming language research but then I stumbled upon another beautiful things called graphics which is too good not to get into. And then also I am learning about DB internals by watching Professor Andy CMU course on DB. What suggestions would you give to me? thanks for your amazing advice.

[@clashon9940]

If someone trying to switch from non IT to IT field How much one should learn to get good paid internship or job ?

[@RaNd0MiZeD]

Thanks

[@Abhinav_Vinci]

thanks

[@lakshaysaini8835]

Arpit what's your thought one should focus on breadth in early stages in 1-5 year or we should follow the T shape strategy from starting

[@AsliEngineering]

Explore the breadth first and then dive deeper.

[@HimanshuKumar-xz5tk]

learning is important for software engineers but I don't think exploring everything is possible while in job I did explore backend, frontend, android, ML, IOT .. in college but not while in job While being jack of all trades, it's important to be master of one For example, full stack dev with expertise/gaining expertise in backend Seriously, I've tried frontend development and like most parts of it except developing UI. I don't think HTML & CSS has much to do with engineering .. so even though I know frontend development, I choose backend and would go deeper into it with just around 2 years of experience I find ML interesting but I won't see any job openings that says ML & Backend engineer 2 cents!

[@shashishekhar4652]

You really don't understand complexity around HTML/CSS. try to build very scalable frontend applications you will understand.

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product I work on has user in millions@@shashishekhar4652

[@amitm7550]

I have done training certification in the cloud then also I'm not getting a job as a Fresher...

[@rajborpe]

What should Full stack developer do, we have to look different technology?

[@protyaybanerjee5051]

Context - Read the 'Hell Yes or No' book by Seth Godin. You can apply this idea in many areas of life.

[@RakeshG-kg3xt]

How about early Amazonians? 😅

[@prateekagrawal8166]

How to stay updated with news about tech?

[@AsliEngineering]

1. HackerNews 2. Twitter 3. GitHub Feed

[@sudoupdate]

Essentially give up your life

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*Promosm*

[@yyy5523]

I'm not gonna marry then 11:00

[@ryan-bo2xi]

Your courses may change developers but cant change stubborn Managers. They need to watch sadhguru videos ..

[@vishnuvnair756]

Me who started my computer science career at 27 🥹

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Wat about the career gap ppl 😞