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Discussion on: How do you overcome the feeling of not being as cool as the other DEVs?

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Evan Plaice

Do something 'cool'

Learn something to such a high degree of depth that your insight becomes inherently valuable/interesting to other devs.

For example. Most devs understand BigO but very very few understand how that applies to parsing different types of grammars.

To learn something like this

  1. Never, ever blindly copy/paste code or ideas

  2. When sourcing code from others, rewrite, refactor, break the code until you have a deep understanding of how it works

  3. Do the work. Research like a researcher, not a student. Look for holes, missing details, better sources, be skeptical.

  4. Come up with something useful that other devs will actually use. Devs complain about pain points in devemopment. Complaints = opportunities.

  5. Build something useful. Share the hell out of it.

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Abhishek Sharma

Great advice. Thank you.