Why Great Developers DON'T Create Content (and a lesson to learn)

when I first learned a code I wanted to share everything that I was learning even pretty Elementary stuff like using two for Loops I just felt compelled to try and teach that to someone following in my footsteps being self-taught and all and I got a lot of criticism for it this guy isn't a real developer he's brand new he's not doing it right he doesn't have real world experience and all of that stuff and my response was always well the great developers out there they're not creating any content they aren't teaching somebody's got to do it I'm just filling the gaps here and around that time there were many people like me new developers on YouTube new developers writing blogs teaching all of the things that they were learning but where were all the great developers I mean if you have so much experience so much Real World experience that can benefit so many people why would you not be teaching it why do you not have your own channel why are you not creating your own courses and helping out the masses by broadcasting all that wisdom that's in your head I mean we were Desperately Seeking that kind of content and as the years have gone by I've found the answers they happen to be one many started programming before the rise of social media in YouTube and they just have no interest in it two they have a small SM mind but they freeze up on camera or they can't communicate well but I think there's a bigger reason one that I want to talk about in this video and before we get to that I have to give a quick shout out to today's sponsor brilliant brilliant.org is a great way to learn Math logic and computer science interactively brilliant is fun practical and has thousands of lessons from basic to Advanced topics from computer science and programming algorithms python AI logic and other tools to help you level up your skills or keep those skills sharp and it's built for busy people like me and you like I said you can Master big Concepts in as little as 15 minutes a day maybe 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they just have other interests interests that we have completely forgotten how to enjoy and here's the thing many of us have made software development our identity it's who we are it's what we work on it's what we breathe it's what we do in our free time we work a Dev job we tweet about coding we create content about code we meet up with our coding buddies we go to coding events we live it every second of every day and we're scared to take a couple weeks off because we might lose the skill but the experience developers have found that there just so happens to be more life out there they put in their effort at work work but they're really looking forward to biking on the weekend or smoking meats or taking trips or playing music in other words they have a life outside of coding they've learned to make a break in what they do and who they are the first corporate Dev job that I took there was a senior developer there and he was really really really skilled a great developer could do anything could explain anything but I could never get him fired up to talk about development he was always talking about his baseball team and the games that he was going to and the hobbies that he was into and the trips that he had planned and I'm all like what do you think about es6 and all that stuff and he would be like I don't know I've never even heard of it and since then I've contrasted myself a person who could code all day and talk about it all night to the senior devs and tech leads and managers that I've worked with that could cut off coding completely when needed to pursue other interests in their evenings and weekends and days off they would be at kids baseball games or they'd be excited about a new entertainment system install or powerlifting or reading history books in fact there was a point in time where people had nothing else to talk to me about they would see me and they would start this small talk on how's your coding going or people that code could only talk to me about the latest coding technology there was no other life outside of that I either had much to say about coding or little to say about anything else in these days I try not to talk to people outside of work about coding but what's the point in me saying all of this am I going to stop doing this of course not I love this stuff but again there's a lesson to be learned here there's a reason these developers can do this job for 30 to 40 years while you're getting burned out at 5 by way of analogy when you work out and you follow some particular routine there's usually every 6 weeks or so a week that you take off it's called deloading and that gives your body a chance to rest to recover from weeks of heavy lifting but you know what when you come back that week after to resume that routine you find pull-ups easier and your body more performant because you've given it proper rest likewise if we take 2 weeks off of programming we don't forget it in fact we come back with a much clearer head and a greater passion for it and we know that's true because taking a 20-minute walk around lunchtime usually helps you solve the conundrum that you were stuck on that morning so I have three suggestions for you today number one what is something that you love to do previously but have since stopped doing maybe you used to take your Trek mountain bike and hit the single track every weekend or on random evenings then you had kids and you sold it sounds like my story but now you actually have time for it if you stop coding for a bit and get back into it think about those things that you used to do things that excited you and rekindle that again number two if you find that your mind is always on coding then you either need to start reading books or you need to start reading wider CS Lewis once said to make a contrast with someone who is not a reader we realize it best when we talk to an unliterary friend he may be full of goodness and good sense but he inhabits a tiny World in it we should be suffocated the man who is content to be only himself and therefore less a self is in prison do you inhabit a tiny little world of coding only we actually just started this new book in The Imposter devs Community called The Joy of x a guided tour of math from one to Infinity to try and rekindle that love for Math and not necessarily for programming but just in general as many of us haven't considered these Concepts since high school and number three to become an even better programmer you need time off you need time away from it on a regular basis if you work for a company then you should be maxing out your PTO and if you have unlimited PTO then just quit going to work just kidding that time off will strange as it sounds make you a much better programmer and a more fun person to talk to overall if you found this video helpful give it a thumbs up if you haven't subscribe to the channel consider doing so and I'll see you in the next video [Music]

Channel: Travis Media

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Keywords: great developers dont create content, self taught developer, tech youtubers, coding tutorials

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Length: 6min 55sec (415 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 30 2024