Life Long Learning (II)
Recently I’ve been working on a few projects that requires understanding some very wide and deep topics, particularly EULYNX and SSI. I don’t know about other people but I find them very hard to understand, and I can see people making careers by just explaining them to people. So when I am required to design products based on these (with other people of course), it feels like a challenge. A cursory read might give a brief understanding, but to be useful, a deeper understanding is needed. But how deep is enough, a question that I come across often. As what my colleague like to say, “How long is a string?”
Indeed, how long is a string, and how long do we have to keep learning? In life, it is particular useful to keep learning, and keep a positive view of learning. Just take things and understandings as they are, and you’ll always come on top. However when delivering things, these deliverables are not always so loosely required; there is a deadline. Still, there need to be some particular contributions that is needed, and this requires more than cursory reading. In the end, the cliché of getting the balance is the answer. Once in a while, you need to cut the string and just measure the damn thing.
End of rant. Apologies for the nonsense.
Thank you for reading.