Discussion on: Evergreen skills to use throughout your career?

[Jose Gonzalez]

Mandatory

• Listening
• Communicating clearly
• Ego check
• Empathy
• Remembering that you are not your code

Techs

• CRUD
• N-Tier architecture
• High Order Functions (.map, .filter, .reduce)
• Know how to google a question (dead serious)
• Have friends who are experts in specific topics so you can ask them questions (and also pay back by helping them)

[Sung M. Kim]

It seems the good soft skills is a must as you and others have pointed out.

High Order Functions (.map, .filter, .reduce)

Would it make sense to go more abstract and learn all Functional Programming (FP) concepts?

Know how to google a question (dead serious)
I got an idea on how from Shawn Wang (How to Google Your Errors)

[Jose Gonzalez]

Hey Sung,

Soft Skills

I'm hesitant to call them "soft skills" because it makes them sound they aren't important to our job.

Lately, I've taken those skills to the next level, and great results.

If you can combine your tech skills with people skills, I think that makes you an unicorn. (You know that super awesome dev who is likeable and always be willing to help with a smile, yeah, that's who I am talking about).

HoF

I said because we are always doing list manipulation of some sort:

• A list of items (data retrieval)
• I want to create a new list of items from those items (map)
• I want a subset of that list of items (filter)
• I want to find the total price of those items (reduce?)

But for-loops can do the same? You may be thinking. And you are 100% correct, but HoF make def life much easier :)

[Sung M. Kim]

Thank you for the explanations, Jose.

You know that super awesome dev who is likeable and always be willing to help with a smile, yeah, that's who I am talking about

When I imagine the situation, I can see value of "people skill".

Regarding HoF, I've been writing a series of blog posts (Sorry for the Shamless plug 😜) on implementing C#'s LINQ methods in JavaScript.
I now know that it hasn't been in vein ☺️