The Trap No One Warns You About

For most tech enthusiast stepping into the digital world for the first time, the sheer scale of it all often seems like a rush.
You find yourself diving into the deep end, captivated by the high of wanting to know everything. One morning you are learning Go, the next hour you are into DevOps and cyber security and by midnight you are knee deep in a kubernetes setup tutorial you barely understand. You want to understand it all, build it all and be the person who has a hand in the most crucial tools moving the industry forward.

The Crash Hits

With how fast the technical progress moves compared to what the human brain can consume, that initial excitement curdles into something heavier. You end up having fifty open tabs, half finished tutorials, growing backlog of newsletters and instead of excitement you feel dread and overwhelmed.

That dread shifts into paralysis, you tried to touch on everything but feel like you truly know nothing. You are completely lost in the noise, overwhelmed by the feeling you are falling behind in the field you did not even care about 24 hours ago.

The Fix

The instinct to read more or find that one course or road map that makes everything click is usually wrong.

Pick one project, one stack and a problem. Give it your all and aggressively filter out everything else, trusting that the rest of the tech world will still be there once you are done. Anchor your learning to a concrete output and you will find yourself shifting from anxious overload into something far more productive.

You don't need to know everything to be valuable in the industry. The best developers out there, that most people admire, are not the ones that consumed the most content, but the ones who built through the noise while others stuck to watching tutorials.

Close a tab, open your IDE, ship something.