Arjun Mehta ·
Learning a new framework every quarter feels like progress and rarely compounds
Underneath the framework churn, the durable things are data modelling, concurrency, network behaviour, and how to debug something you did not write. Time spent there stays valuable after the current tools are replaced, which they will be.
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