Tech fitness: how to effectively level up hard skills
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Talk explains a practical system for steadily improving developers' hard skills without burnout. It covers daily, low-effort practices — integrating learning into routine work like code reviews and using LLMs — and offers ways to avoid overload and ineffective one-off study sessions.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Welcome
- 1:24What is tech fitness
- 3:51Hard skills matter
- 5:39Strategic skill development
- 7:45Skill decomposition example
- 11:58Skills vs fitness
- 13:05Code review for growth
- 18:42Technical debt as learning
- 22:17External knowledge sources
- 26:12Learning in workflow
- 29:40LLM for self-education
- 38:39Summary and tips
- 41:08Q&A
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