My Top 10 Tips for Now!

Okay. I’m an academic and I love learning, but there are times in your life when you take a step back, and really reassess your place in this world. With many of us in lock-down, this could be that time. So, I’m going to give you my 10 pieces of advice. Note they are only mines, and there’s a billion others that you could listen to. Overall, most relate to education and innovation, as it is these things which will hopefully help rebuild our economy after its current shock.

My advice for this lock-down:

1. Go learn something new, and learn it deeply. Buy some e-books, and read, and push yourself. Too often in this world of technology, we surface learn, and struggle to get past the most basic of concepts. Professional certification may get you that promotion, but do you really understand the complexity of what lies undernealth? To understand how we can best build this new world of technology, we must be engineers and not technicicans. We must be leaders, and not followers.

2. Go learn Python, and if you know Python, go learn Go, and if you know Go, go learn Rust. The days of the spreadsheet are past, the rise of Python is here, so go learn it, and do something useful. I personally still struggle with its syntax, but with libraries such as NumPy, it is an environment made for building real things.