
## Ep 3: University Education is Important!

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One might argue that we can find a job and build a great career even without one. But I don't see universities' main goal to help you find a job or master JS basics (youtube videos are doing it 😏).

University helps you to master and improve the following skills: ⤵️

🎓 1. Academic approach for learning and executing.
Youtube videos might help you learn some basics regarding technologies, but they are not digging enough as a result we have specialists who don’t know how to approach complex problems which require deep analysis.

As a result, we don’t go further than google’s first page of results.
As a result, we have bunch of coders who acknowledge “Engineer” just as a LinkedIn status.

🌁 2. Big Picture.
Higher education gives you the big picture about everything you are going to face during your professional career. Sometimes we think that it’s not important, but lately facing issues regarding different domains, we are able to dive deep into the topic really fast.

Maybe I didn’t need those lessons of Calculus and Philosophy when I was 18, but now (when I’m 23) they help me to be a better engineer, a better manager, and a human.

🧐 3. Fundamental Knowledge shows its importance in the long term run.
University gives deep fundamental knowledge regarding Computer Science, Philosophy, Physics, and Math. Sometimes they are not enough to find a job, but these skills create huge potential which you can turn into a career (with intensive courses, YouTube videos, etc) later. Maybe in short term, people, who started earlier without fundamental knowledge, might outstrip university graduates, but in the long-term run, they had no chance.

🔥 People who think that they don’t need higher education, are receiving tasks corresponding to their competence and will never be able to understand where they are going to be needed.

P.S. I want to dedicate this post to all my university teachers. They were right about _almost_ anything. I was a fool to think that I'm smarter. 🙏🏻


😈 Unpopular opinion. Ep 3


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I remember a day, a few years ago, I was reading the “Deep Work” by Cal
Newport. Cal was telling about the importance of focused deep work and
how high is the cost of distraction.

The book triggered me to start being mindful of the harm notifications
Starting from that day I started to turn notifications off but in a slow mode without stressing myself and throwing myself at the feet of the FOMO.

> 🙀 FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) — fear of not being included in something (such as an interesting or enjoyable activity) that others are experiencing

So, here is my one-year plan on how to gradually disable notifications.

| **Time**    | **Easy**                                                                             | Hard                                  |
| ----------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------- |
| Q1 | Turning off secondary applications (e.g. photo editing, sports)                      | ---                                   |
| Q2 | Turning off productivity apps (e.g. todoist, Trello, apple reminder)                 | Turning off Emails                    |
| Q3 | Turning off social networks (e.g. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter)                      | Turning off Services (delivery, taxi) |
| Q4 | Turning off all applications except phone calls (e.g. messenger, telegram, WhatsApp) | Turning off everything                |

_The plan is flexible, so you can change it as you wish._

## Additional Materials

- [Deep Work by Cal Newport](https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Work-Focused-Success-Distracted/dp/1455586692)
- [The Key to Happiness in a Distracted World](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Lay89Tk2nk)


Past year I was gradually limiting applications which can distract me and now I finally turned all notifications off.

🔇 Notifications off


## Ep 1: React Sucks

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It's almost 2022, but:
  — we still don't have adequate approaches that the community agrees regarding state management;

  — there are a lot of options for conditional rendering, but each of them is a compromise;

  — JSX is a nightmare;

  — it's just slow. Maybe examples from their documentation page are working fast, but whenever someone starts to work on something a little bit more complex, react starts to create problems for you;

  — seems like all form libraries in the ecosystem have been created to make the DX as awful as possible.

P.S. Spoiler: other frameworks aren’t better.

P.P.S. In the meantime, I'm looking for middle and senior React and Node.js Developers.

P.P.P.S. It's the first post of the series of "😈 Unpopular opinions" where I'm making statements most people don't agree with and trying not to read/write comments.


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