self-education

[boreal cryptid]

anyone doing self-education?

doesn't have to be super-complex-scientific-university-level-stuff (but might be! :P)
by education i mean learning anything, but also having a structure, discipline, plan, etc. basically, ways to set up your own pace with it, i guess.

if you do... please share about it! maybe you have any advice? how did you find your own pace? what do you use for it? maybe useful software?

i personally struggle with pace a lot. sometimes i do too much, other days - too little. :/
i usually don't have problems with self-discipline, but it often has negative motivation, which is...... not healthy at all! a bad habit from my school years, i think. trying to build my discipline on positive & reasonably challenging motivation now...

[nobo]

I spent about 5-6 years no lifing technology. I learned Python, Javascript, Django, React, Linux, Docker, Nginx, Postgres, etc etc etc. I'm basically a full stack developer that never uses anything I learned anymore because I don't work in software. Junior dev jobs were hard to get during the time I was taking it seriously. Once AI came out, no one has use for someone of my experience level. It's not an issue of skill. It's work experience.

Anyway I'm pretty okay with it but I do feel like I spent a lot of time and sacrificed more important things to learn a skill I basically don't need.

Lately I've been learning theology and the history of the church at different time periods. I've been reading old chronicles from middle ages written by monks, like the Chronicles of Matthew Paris and Ecclesiastical History of the English People and I listen to seminary lectures. I love the style of writing that the monks do. Part of me wishes I could be a monk. Self education was their main past time aside from work and prayer.

It's funny: "Yeah I used to be a technology guy, now I spend my time learning actually valuable things like church history."