Here’s the best way to grow as a software engineer:

It’s not:

• Talking about tech.
• Reading about tech.
• Researching tech.
• Watching tech videos.

While these are valuable, true growth comes from one thing:

Doing the tech.

• Code that project.
• Build that infrastructure.
• Deploy that project.

The best learning happens when you get your hands dirty and do.

_Source: Eric Roby on Linkedin

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Here in Ethiopia Work Ethics is Underrated so ...if it's help👌

"if I simply told you what to do, ultimately you would fail. You have to gain the understanding for yourself in order to make the rules work,"

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The idea is that the more you understand what's going on and figure out the problem by yourself, the more options you’ll see, and the better you’ll know what to do. That’s what guarantees success. Just knowing what to do without understanding or figuring it out yourself isn't enough. That’s why we need someone to help us see, not to look for us.

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Wow, looks like we’ve got at least one person motivated by "Helping other" 😁 bless their heart 😇

We will have more polls coming up, so be ready! 😄

Hey peeps

I came across the terms "capacity" and "throughput." I've seen them in software testing somewhere, but I’m not talking about software stuff here. more like a general way of measuring how well we’re doing things.

So, think of capacity as “how many things fit” in a space like, imagine how many cars you can fit on a highway. But here's the thing: just because you can pack a lot in doesn’t mean they’re actually moving. That’s where throughput comes in, it’s about flow, like the maximum number of things that can actually move through in a given time.

You could have high capacity but low throughput. For example, picture a highway jammed with cars (high capacity), but they’re all stuck, barely moving (low throughput). Everything is about flow! If things aren’t moving, what’s the point of fitting more in?

So, generally, we don’t just care about capacity; we need flow. We need to get the max throughput, keeping things at their max where they can flow, not just fit in and get stuck.

Add your reflections and ideas in the comments. This concept is more of a company or production thing, but we can definitely bring it into our lives too.

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Think in your life

how many things do you think you can handle at the same time? like your capacity? Because it doesn’t mean you will accomplish them. in fact, you might get stuck.

Now think about the things you can concurrently do or accomplish without getting stuck. It may be one at a time or many at a time, but it should have flow not get stuck like a traffic jam where you can’t even move any of those

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Basically
Luck counts, but don't count on it.

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So, you’re motivated by different things, as we saw from the last poll, but no one ever seems to say satisfied. Is it because you’re not at a point where you can feel satisfied yet? Or is there something holding you back… or maybe you’re holding yourself back?

Do you feel you’re on the right track but won’t feel satisfied until you achieve what you set out to do? Or do you feel you’re not even on the right track?

Or maybe you don’t even know where you are right now so tell us I’m hoping to hear from so many of you

i know there are a lot of confusing questions but tell us at least something, something you feel when u click the option on the poll ... waiting for comments

Some of you have been DMing me, which is awesome! I might even share a few insights I’ve gained from those direct messages with everyone.

There is a concept called constraint or bottleneck. I’m not much familiar with it, but there’s also TOC, which stands for Theory of Constraints. It says there is always a bottleneck in our system, and it determines our productivity. Even if we have very nice and well-equipped machines, it doesn’t make our productivity go higher unless we really focus on the constraint and try to optimize it. That thing might only account for 10% of our system, but it determines the whole thing.

So, what I can say is, you should always find the bottleneck and constraint in yourself and try to optimize it, so everything else can flow smoothly with it

enough for today, I hope 😂. Feels like I’m just talking to myself! 🤣

Jack of all trades, master of none

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do we have to be devious sometimes or is it totally wrong to be devious?

“I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.” 😁

-- Emo Phillips