Non Technical advice for software engineers

Key Takeaways

You need to be obsessed. Software development is a field that you need to live. You need to constantly stay up todate. You need to be checking what new languages and technologies are coming out, refreshing your skills, and really just be obsessed with this field in general. If you're not someone who's interested in new things that are coming out, keeping up with technologies, if you're not actually actively learning more, this probably isn't a field that you want to get into or that you're going to be successful with because anyone who's a good developer is completely obsessed with this. Their whole Twitter feed's full of software development. They're watching videos. They're reading the new documentation. They're checking out press releases. They're going to events. They're talking with others in the field. This is their life. If you ask them what they do, they say, "I'm a software developer." That's what you need to act like and that's how you're going to get good is by being completely obsessed with this