It has become very clear, just by being around my co-workers at Arm ATG, that I need to be spending time, both in and out of work, learning as much as I can.
College might be the most expensive sampler into the chip industry. That’s not to say it wasn’t worth it, but it’s hard to deeply extract everything from college without oversubscribing and burning out. I got to hear about almost all layers of the stack — so I have almost a decent amount of the field in my periphery at least — but nothing as deep as I need to know at work.
Some rules:
- Do my note-taking here. Networked thought. Links, links, links.
- Be okay with being wrong. It’s okay if my notes are incorrect or incomplete, as long as I’m constantly striving to improve them.
- Work in public. Find ways to hear from experts and get feedback. Help other like-minded people learn.
“You need to keep up more to find out what the problems are than to read to find the solutions. The reading is necessary to know what is going on and what is possible.”
— Richard Hamming, You and Your Research