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Discussion on: You don't need to know everything (but you should know something well)

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Molly Struve (she/her)

Thank you for sharing those great posts! They were truly a pleasure to read.

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I could not agree more that this is an unfortunate part of our culture. I used to always feel behind when someone would mention a new technology that I had never even heard of. Only now, after 6 years of doing this, am I starting to finally give myself permission to not know everything.

My biggest learning breakthroughs weren’t about a particular technology. Rather, I learned the most when I struggled to solve a particular UI problem.

YES x 1000 for this quote! Elasticsearch is one piece of technology that I pride myself at knowing backwards and forwards. I learned almost everything that I know from 3 years on the job struggling to scale our cluster at Kenna. There were a lot of "OH SHIT, that was wrong!" moments, but in the end, I wouldn't change any of it bc it made the breakthroughs that much more rewarding.

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rhymes

I could not agree more that this is an unfortunate part of our culture. I used to always feel behind when someone would mention a new technology that I had never even heard of. Only now, after 6 years of doing this, am I starting to finally give myself permission to not know everything.

You reminded me of the post Choose Boring Technology. Dan McKinley argues that we should default to technologies that are "boring and good" and when to introduce new ones.

Elasticsearch is one piece of technology that I pride myself at knowing backwards and forwards.

Cool :-) Elasticsearch is truly everywhere!