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LM: #279: 7 years HTML?
Some job posts read: “7 years experience with HTML required,” and that is so confusing.
I have more than twenty-five years of experience with HTML. I haven’t done it every day for twenty-five years. That’s just how long ago I started.
Someone with one year of experience could possibly code faster and cleaner than I.
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But even if I had coded HTML every day for twenty-five years, how much better could I be than someone who’s been doing it for one year?
Not much. HTML just isn’t that complicated.
I remember reading something by the guys at Basecamp that, paraphrased, said, “You can’t have seven years HTML experience. You can have one year, seven times.”
With AI tools available to us, the list of things that are complicated is shorter and shorter. There’s no reason you can’t know a little of everything. If you knew no HTML, you could have a short conversation with ChatGPT and have a month’s experience within an hour.
All you need to learn something is a problem to solve, the belief you can learn, and ChatGPT.
Don’t have one year of experience seven times, nor twenty-five. When you get the hang of one thing, learn the next.
Book: How to Be Everything (Amazon) is a guide for “multipotentialites,” or those who (still) don’t know what they want to be when they grow up.
Cool: This 20 Minute Active Recovery Workout is great for the day after lifting.
Best,
David
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