Keeping up with Technology

Course Overview
How do you keep up with technology? Naturally, you have to keep up with the tech you're working on, improving your knowledge of current technology, while preparing for future versions. Broadening your skills into current and future versions of related technology is important as well. There's new technologies that are used in your company that you might want to learn to broaden your responsibilities and maybe help you get that promotion, and then there are technologies you want to learn because they might offer job opportunities in the future. And of course, some that you might want to learn just for fun. Ohhhh, that's a lot of technology to learn. The pressure, the stress, the fear of falling behind is very real. My name is Dan Appleman, and my career spans everything from 8080 microprocessors to Intel i7s, from 110-Bot teletypes to gigabit internet, from PDP-11 BASIC to JavaScript, C#, and Apex. And there's one thing I've learned, you can't rely on brute force, just learning everything in sight to keep up with technology. You have to think strategically. In this course, you'll learn strategies for keeping up, you'll learn how to choose which technologies to keep up with, and how to judge the timing, when to learn them, and how to find the time. You'll discover techniques for learning efficiently and how to treat keeping up with technology as a marathon to build a long lasting career. Above all, you'll learn how to maximize your efficiency so that you can keep up with technology, while still having time to do other things like have a life outside of work. So join me and discover what it really means to keep up with technology.