When you have a project, you learn by necessity.
When you are taking a course to expand your abilities, you learn voluntarily.
I find learning via projects is the fastest and most useful. I am unsure if I will take courses ever again.
When you are taking a course to expand your abilities, you learn voluntarily.
I find learning via projects is the fastest and most useful. I am unsure if I will take courses ever again.
For instance, I’m not going to learn the intricacies of Rust to scratch an itch if I see that there are no jobs for it.
Does that make me mercenary and show a lack of “passion”? Probably.
Are there nothing you do out of passion? I'm sure there is. You got any hobbies? I'm sure you learn about that voluntarily.
Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy development and learning more about software development/architecture, but I focus that on what’s marketable.
Plenty of learning involved with that. Spending time with you wife means constantly learning about her, and about you and her in tandem. Exercising means constantly learning about your body and the exercises you do, and the combination of those parts. Of course, it is possible to spend time with someone as well as exercising without learning anything, but it seems you a voluntarily involved in both, so my guess is that you are not resisting learning but are instead voluntarily learning :)
I also learn mostly through projects but I think sometimes it's good to take a dedicated class to expand my horizon further than the immediate need or just into a completely new area.
For every project I do, I will have many shitty project follow alongs from MOOC's
Its far more efficient I learn the big picture in the shallowest way possible, than deep dive into a project
Learning by necessity means you get the happy path to work.