Improving What You Consume
Explore strategies to improve what you consume as a software engineer. Learn to focus on quality content by following influential people, reading recommended books thoroughly, and studying open-source code. Understand the value of subscribing to GitHub repos and issues to observe code evolution and collaboration, helping you deepen your coding knowledge and skills.
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People over the content
Follow people over content sources. When you come across a quality blog, podcast, or talk, notice the person behind it and follow what they do. A lot of how content works these days is through aggregators, like Reddit or Hacker News, an industry blog, or podcast or conference. The quality may vary quite a lot despite the best curation efforts. Titles and upvotes may be gamed for SEO, but a quality person is likely to be quality for life. You already know you are the average of the X people you spend time with, so curate those people. RSS feeds help here.
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