You only reach a high level of expertise when you throw yourself at something and focus on it until you get expert at it.
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I find forgoing other avenues scary. There's just too much interesting to persue.
Does anyone else struggle with the decision to specialize or diversify?
yes and no
with years you understand how the things you love can overlap in a specific field and also learn to prioritise
What field is this for you? How did you find out?
i just experiment and trust my gut feeling a lot (which i know you already do and have done a bunch) 💜
for it's the technical side and the design + humanitarian side of things, not gonna get too specific here, but would love to discuss this further privately
We should call and chat up soon. It's been too long since we talked.
I've been wondering when we'll see Planet's designs and PRs in the wild!
100%
Yes few, it’s y I can’t listen to any general subject podcasts anymore. Joe Rogan is the worst at it
The clueless lecturing the indifferent.
I was just thinking about your bread, nostr:npub1wqfzz2p880wq0tumuae9lfwyhs8uz35xd0kr34zrvrwyh3kvrzuskcqsyn
When I taught myself to bake artisan bread, I baked every day, sometimes multiple times per day. I read everything I could find about it, grew my own starter, tried out different flours and forms and techniques.
We were all so sick of bread, and then I suddenly stopped and went to one or two loaves per week and it's been like that ever since.
But I can bake 15 types of bread without a recipe and it's always like 🤌🏼
And then I spent 3 years working in a bakery.
I don't bake bread every day. More like once a week, because that's how quickly we eat it.
I have so much more confidence in bread baking now, though (even though I managed to kill my starter, but that's a different story).
A good anecdote from my experience is I wanted to learn a guitar arrangement of the theme from The Mandalorian a year or so ago. It was way above my skill level at the time. For a month that was the only thing that I practiced, until I finally had it down.
This piece used an alternate tuning, right-hand tapping, harmonics, and some bizarre chord shapes. But now I have some additional techniques under my belt that I can apply to other pieces. And I can brush up on The Mandalorian theme whenever I want. It's a cool piece.