OK
> - The Art of Unix Programming - Raymond
Waste of time
> Pretty much any of the programming books published by No Starch Press
Waste of time (mostly)
> 1) Learn SQL
OK
> 2) Absorb everything you possibly can by Rich Hickey and Stu Halloway. "Simple Made Easy"
Disagree. The Clojure ecosystem is a silo and a lot of their edicts do not translate.
> ribbonfarm
Waste of time, besides being able to write thousands of words about absolutely nothing, vgr is now pushing web3 / metaverse / cryptos. Charlatan.
> You're going to learn most by immersion in an ecosystem
Wrong. You're going to learn most surrounded by people better than you. Find those people and teams and go work with them.
Background: Worked on multiple FAANGs, including Google and Amazon, also fintech, now retired.