05-29, 10:15–11:05 (Europe/London), Music Hall
Why learn things? Learning things is boring, and hard, and you can always look up things on StackOverflow, or ask GitHub Copilot, and things will work out in the end, right?
Video: https://youtu.be/Md-PmC0IzAk
Tech is ever-updating and asks us to keep learning and practicing and learning and practicing. It seems to never stop, and unless you're happy to settle in with your generation's equivalent of FORTRAN¹, there's no escaping the Wheel of Updates.
A talk about deliberate practice, about deciding when learning things is worth the time and effort, and on reducing the time and effort required to learn things. About typing fast, and learning slow, and spaced repetition. About burnout and tendonitis and frustration and, of course, about speedrunning.
¹ no shade intended; that's a perfectly valid reaction to all this.
Tobias is a Python/Django developer with a heavy focus on Open Source projects: his pretalx system powers the schedule for this year's conference. He was an the organiser of DjangoCon Europe 2018 in Heidelberg.