Upping My Game as a Developer
I've been a software engineer for about 13 years or so. For the last 4 years, I've been at a senior level at the companies where I've worked. But I came to realize something over the last few months: I have a tendency to seek out the easiest ways to learn new things. Case in point: when it came to learning new technologies, many of my colleagues tended to read many pages of official documentation while I tended to ignore the documentation and look for videos or targeted googling to learn. This works fine much of the time, so I still learn it. But the point is that I was almost unable to learn from the actual documentation. I recognized that there was a bit of a hole in my skillset as a senior developer, and it was up to me to fill it. So over the last couple weeks, i challenged myself to dig deep in the official documentation for the technologies I used at work. When something challenged me, I tried going first to the official docs to see if I could find the answ