Programming

This will be a bit more ranty than my usual articles. Fair warning. But I need to put this out there.

Recently, a video by Jeffrey Way of Tailwind/Laracast fame came across my feed. In less than 15 minutes, he managed to succinctly capture everything I absolutely detest about the current moment in the IT industry.

This isn't a response to Jeffrey per se, but to the whole attitude that he captures. (And it shouldn't need to be said, but this is not an attack on Jeffrey, nor should anyone use this as an excuse to attack or otherwise be a jerk to Jeffrey or anyone else.)

He starts off by talking about how the sudden growth of AI has basically torpedoed his business. He recently had to lay off half his company because AI usage had changed the market behavior enough that their revenue was drying up, and "it is what it is."

Learning is important. I trust that is a non-controversial statement.

Much has been said about learning styles, and I will not repeat it here. However, something I see less talked about is learning phases. Specifically, I want to talk about two distinct phases of learning: Up and Out.

While learning usually is applied to a skill, the concept I'm talking about applies to anything: Learning a new skill, getting accustomed to a new community, or culture, or country, or tradition, or religion, or practice, or... pretty much anything.