Ignored Effects of Tech Influence on Your Growth and Skills
Tags: writing, devjournal
Published: 2022-09-26 16:57:10

The new popular tech stack? your room-mate's new added skill? your favourite online influencer's new favourite language ? the new famous 'x online boot camp' or your class' new course? Or even the new hobby which you thought you'd start at beginning of this new year? 

All these things bother and excite at the same time every one of us, but why is it that we never start learning any of these 'flashy, blazingly fast, completely awesome' tech trends? or even if we do start, we leave them midway?


### The Manipulative Sugar Coaters 

How the social media and so called 'famous tech influencers' have impacted lives of thousands of young and upcoming engineers and developers who have no clue about what information they are consuming online 24/7, Countless of them are not actually ever learning anything but only wasting their potential and valuable time by blindly following the so called 'Tech Gurus' in the Industry where all they do is manipulate viewers, spread hate between communities with old and rusted topics of Language Wars and Paradigms, making irrelevant comparisons such as x tech stack pays more than y tech stack just because one online survey said it and other non-sense things which hinders your ongoing progress and decisions about what you actually want to work with and learn, instead of that all we end up doing is aborting one skill and running for another one until new one comes in scenario... 

### The Fantasy Roadmaps to Mastery

Well... There is no such thing, everyday you learn something new and something more than you didn't know yesterday only if you just don't quit so as long as you do not quit and keep practicing there is no need to follow anyone else's roadmaps and 'do this to get this in 3 months' tutorials from online sources. It's obvious that you are not going to get there where the person you're watching is because you are busy watching them than actually doing something productive.

### The Lesser Shared Ideas

What most people won't tell you is probably where you should be going or you want to go, Meetup with like minded or competitors, Discuss ideas and solutions instead of ranting about why X language is better than Y, Grow connections and create under passionate Mentors who give you wisdom and unique way to deal with new facing problems that may sometimes leave you clueless and lost. Do not quit the thing you like to work with or enjoy developing with just because there is something new in the scene which all of your Discord friends are running after. Question the already going standards and conventions, it is not always necessary to follow whatever you are given. Having meaningful and efficiency based, betterment of society and yourself related discussions would help you and everyone around you will grow you actually rather than following the rat race of being the 'most favourite rat of a tech community'. 

> “There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.”
― Oscar Wilde