Ask HN: What to learn and where to focus your time and attention?
I a software engineer with 9 years of experience, mostly in Java/Python space. Recently I started learning C for fun. I was beginning to enjoy it. Then someone claimed I need to know AngularJS, so I tried that. Suddenly in an interview I was asked if I had ever read 'Clean Code' book (which I hadn't). Another friend said I should learn a cloud service for web app hosting, so I delved into Google App and Compute engine. My boss said Android is hot and I should pick it up, I immediately installed Android studio and tried working on it.
Now I feel stuck and in a quagmire. I have a problem of attention deficit and this quandary is causing me lose sleep. I am passionate about technology and don't mind learning anything, literally anything. But where to focus time and efforts is something I have never ever been able to figure out. The result is that I know very little about a lot of things (very very little), but nothing substantial about almost anything. This is driving me crazy. Any suggestions from anyone who faced this?
Now I feel stuck and in a quagmire. I have a problem of attention deficit and this quandary is causing me lose sleep. I am passionate about technology and don't mind learning anything, literally anything. But where to focus time and efforts is something I have never ever been able to figure out. The result is that I know very little about a lot of things (very very little), but nothing substantial about almost anything. This is driving me crazy. Any suggestions from anyone who faced this?