Learning. Gaining Knowledge. Advancing your skills. Leveling up. Getting smarterer? Chances are, you’ve learned something. If you are watching this, you have probably learned how to open youtube. Congrats! You probably already know how to learn about things, but have you ever thought about how to really learn? They say you never stop learning (btw, who are they?). So, today, you’re going to learn…to learn! So…let’s learn! How do you learn? Think about some of the things you’ve learned. How did you learn these things? If you’re a software developer, how did you learn to become one? How did you learn what a software developer is? How will you learn in the future? You have the capacity to understand learning and you can adapt yourself to any given environment. Throughout your career, you will find yourself in a lot of different environments. Each environment is unique. There are similarities that can be found, but that is something I’ll touch on in a bit. Environments can have different languages, frameworks, standards, paradigms, operating systems. To be successful, you must be adaptable. If you can’t or won’t adapt, you can and will get stale. Sometimes, getting stale is okay. Some people thrive...

What would you consider a balanced life? I consider a it as a state in which you are getting the right amount of time devoted to the important aspects of your life. So what are these “aspects”? Well, I call them segments to simplify things. It is my opinion that there are three important segments of one’s life. These segments are Work, Personal Time, and Sleep. I’ll go into detail on the different aspects of each of those a little later on, but knowing we have three distinct segments, we can start talking about life balance. In your career, you will most likely have a job that is 5 days a week. That may change in the future, but for now, that is considered the “norm”. So given we have 5 work days a week, we can look at the three segments and fit them into a given day. If each segment is 8 hours, we have a balance (Math Time: 8 + 8 + 8 = 24). If any segment is not 8 hours, we have imbalance. Imbalance happens all the time. Few people can have a work life that puts these three segments into place, but being aware...