How and where do you get new information? Which webistes, blogs or YouTube channels do you access and recommend? Any podcasts, videocasts? Facebook pages, Twitter profiles? Maybe even email newsletters? Magazines?
From web technologies to the AI world, how do you know the trends and which technologies are rising and falling? What is being created and what is being researched? Who are the ones to pay attention to because of what they're doing?
Out of all the problems in today's world, with today's youth, and with this generation...
Not having enough sources for news aint one of them. ;)
I interview people for my blog. Simply getting multiple views on the same topic is valuable. I think I'll hit hundred interviews next year if I have patience to keep going. :)
I follow Twitter and my friends actively. To be honest, there's too much going on and I am sure I am missing exciting technologies all the time even in my niche.
I have a big RSS feed but honestly I think I miss the most news there because it’s too much. Besides that I found the best sources for what is trendy are Twitter (following influencers and the creators/developer itself) and the conferences around a specific technology or framework.
It’s more important not to jump on every tech that gets hyped. Only time will tell if it came to stay. In the meantime look at what a tech can do for you and if the benefits/tradeoffs are not worth it to dive in to then don’t.
And learn at your own pace because the (internet-)world is spinning fast enough though.
In general thenextweb.com, techcrunch.com and producthunt.com altogether with many other news portals.
As a professional in specific field, you should know your tools and key persons in that field and follow them. For example, if it's Machine learning, you are following Andrew Ng and Jeff Dean, right? Anyway, you should follow key CEOs, CTOs around the world. Finally, you should have own network and follow your friends and other people. Everyone and everything is on Facebook/Twitter/Quora/Medium. Visit those platforms at least few times per week.
Set up your Facebook news feed, it is #1 world's information aggregator.
Join professional and regional groups on Facebook as well. Eventually, you will start following everything in one place. Just make sure you are not infinitely scrolling down and clicking on every cat gif.
J03
Just another bit in the byte
I was thinking about this last night a bit while looking back at some podcasts I follow which had mentioned Bitcoin when I was following them back in 2011, namely Security Now with Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte. It made me wonder why I hadn't gotten into Bitcoin until just this year, and the answer was roughly along the lines of (1) "It wasn't as exciting to me then as now", and (2) I was put off from looking into it until it was too late, maybe due to the fear of difficulty of the task?
So given that I figure, what technologies will end up being like Bitcoin in the future, which I should be looking at now, will likely be those which are off-putting to me on a procrastination level, and which seem slow going to a certain extent.
Two technologies stand out to me most: (1) Machine Learning / AI, which while it's made great strides these past couple of years, still has much potential, and (2) Quantum Computing, which seems off-putting and intimidating now, but which will likely be important to know stuff like Shore's Algorithm, how to read and manipulate Bra-ket notation, brushing up on differential equations and probability theory, etc. Not to mention finding people to talk to and meetup with on these topics.
The only other area that I can think of which is even more off-putting is genetic programming, and not simply the CS topic, but like programming actual genes using CRISPR and related technologies.
Gergely Polonkai
You have to believe in things that are not true. How else would they become?
I read a lot of newsletters like cron.weekly, the newsletter of opensource.com, and DZone.
As a result (and because I use Chrome, where I’m always logged in), my Google Now stream is also filled with similar articles (I believe that’s how I found cron.weekly).