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Igor Mayorov • Edited

Thanks for this article, nobody tells about it yet. One more question: how to get to know what I doesn’t actually know yet?
I afraid that there are still some low-level knowledge that everybody but not me already knows.

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Johannes Scharlach

With seniority the way to think about learning changes. For the first 3-4 years you learn what most others know, then you start packing your own path.

No two very senior people know the same stuff. Sometimes you have a production incident which can prompt you to go deeper on a specific topic. Or you do research on an architectural challenge with the goal to not just "make it work", but really make great architectural decisions. Compare yourself to yourself 6 months ago and decide where you want to be better.

What's also worked for me was to explore new principles. E.g. functional programming with RxJS or model based testing. My twitter feed also always brings up new interesting concepts I don't know yet.

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Igor Mayorov

It is amazing. Thank you very much.