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Metadevelopment Digest - Issue #14

Metadevelopment Digest - Issue #14
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There are two basic modes of learning, which are quite different in their essence. We call those “Discovery” and “Acquisition”. Both of them require a bit different approaches and environment to enhance and speed up your learning.
If you do not know exactly what you should learn, or you don’t have a specific goal, you are in a discovery mode.
If you know exactly what you need to learn, you are in an acquisition mode.
Learn how to build efficient learning strategies for these two modes in my recent article on dev.to 🎓.
Best,
Alex Migutsky, MTDV Founder

👩‍💻 Career and Business Stuff
Zero to 45k users: how we created a chatbot to track airfares — A nice case for launching a side-project ✈️
A forty year career — A very interesting take on long-term career by a developer with 20 years of experience
Here’s How Google Knows in Less Than 5 Minutes if Someone Is a Great Leader 🧙‍♂️
Stephanie Hurlburt
A classic freelancer mistake is to take the hourly rate of your full time job, maybe even increase it a little, and think that's a fine freelancing rate. Haha, nooope. We've all been there with that mistake though. Sometimes you gotta learn the hard way.
🙉 Life Stuff
⚙️ Tech Stuff
OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things.
—Dr. Alan Kay
🚀 Created by MTDV Community Members
💎 Current MTDV Quest: Resolving Conflicts
The goals of the quest:
- Analyse the latest conflict you remember.
- Use the approach from Difficult Conversations book to resolve a conflict next time.
Detailed instructions 🔒.
Wonder what the Quests are? Here is a short introduction 😌
🎁 Bonus
I want to highlight two most common bad habits, which are based on a negative self-talk. The good part is that - as soon as you notice those habits, you can start changing them.
2 Most Common Bad Habits Limiting Your Growth
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