This discussion about programmers that start feeling like phonies gets awfully Rumsfeldian:

I think the more you know, the more you realize just how much you don’t know. So paradoxically, the deeper down the rabbit hole you go, the more you might tend to fixate on the growing collection of unlearned peripheral concepts that you become conscious of along the way.

I can vouch for that feeling. There are a million things I’d like to start learning, but alas, there are only so many hours in the day.  And so many episodes of The Next Generation on Netflix.

   

Posted on August 17, 2011 #coding