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I don't think anyone asked for this.
Stackoverflow hardly surfaces when I am searching for help and when I find answers it's usually a blog or a hosted blog somewhere. Most Stackoverflow answers are usually 4-5 years old and outdated.
Perhaps it's simply my engineering has improved in the last decade and I no longer search for help very often and when I do it's outside the scope of Stackoverflow..
Html, css and javascript will be useful forever. As will basic computer science, architecture and so on.
For example, you feel like you're wasting your time reading a fiction book when you could be doing X to make more progress. Playing a video game? Forget about it. I got to a point where I wouldn't even listen to music because it may take some other gains away.
I struggled with these same problems ( I'm not even Asian =P ). I wish there was some magical fix, but there isn't. What I found to be best is to embrace it... I picked roughly three things I want to excel at and I center my life around those things.
This means I won't ever learn how to make digital music, pixel art, read X fiction books or whatever, but life is short. I'd rather excel at a few things I care about deeply and pass on everything else.
For a minute, I was worried there were some crazy nationalistic Chinese dudes living in the woods behind my house.
1. Dude gets invited to do a keynote.
2. Dude gets his keynote invite withdrawn because some members of the rust team were "uncomfortable" with the content of dude's blog. The content which was technical and not of the standard Twitter/cancellation variety.
3. Second Dude leaves rust leadership because he seen how the rust community treated first dude.
Alternatively, look at the Go community and leadership. The Go team discussed generics and eventually implemented them although leadership and the community was often against it. They certainly didn't cancel keynotes or speakers that were pro-generics.
Do whatever seems to work or may work. Don't think about it. Just do it.
The midwit meme pretty much sums this entire problem up: https://www.swyx.io/simplicity-rush
The only time I find it hard to do things in silence is while exercising... mainly the treadmill.
Scrape 10,000 emails/basic biographics and email blast everyone with an exciting opportunity at an {X} company doing {Y} thing that raised {Z} money. Insert unlimited leave, work life balance, and some other thing no one cares about but the company.
Challenge accepted.
> "You know, the whole thing about perfectionism.. perfectionism is very dangerous, because of course if your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything. Because doing anything results in— it's actually kind of tragic because it means you sacrifice how gorgeous and perfect it is in your head for what it really is." -- David Foster Wallace
The only thing that matters is that you do-- so pick whatever gets you off HN and into your editor of choice :)
I would say it has been very valuable in my recent learning adventure. It saved me a from numerous gotchas that would have bit me. It also gave me a base knowledge to know what to look for when I needed it.
Otherwise, I would have been Googling and shoveling crap together myself instead of doing things how they were intended.