Igeometry Podcast

You get better as a software engineer when you go through these stages. 0:00 Intro  1:15 Understand a technology 7:07 Articulate how it works 15:30 Understand its’ limitations 19:48 Try to build something better 27:45 Realize what you built also has limitations 32:48 Appreciate the original tech as is Understand a technology   We use technologies all the time without knowing how it works. And it is ok not knowing how things work if interests isn’t there. But when there is interest to understand how something works, pursue it. It feels good when you understand how something works because you work better with it, you swim with the tide instead of against it.  When I learned how TCP/IP work..  you would appreciate every connection request, how you read requests. You will ask questions,  what is my code doing here?  When exactly I’m creating connections? When am I reading from the connection?  Is it safe to share connections? Articulate how it works This one is not easy, you might think you underst