Fundamentals Will Help You Survive the Constant Acceleration of Software Engineering
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Fundamentals Will Help You Survive the Constant Acceleration of Software Engineering

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 21, 202613 min
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Fundamentals get talked about constantly, but rarely defined. In this episode I dig into what a fundamental actually is — the building blocks, heuristics, and core characteristics that don't change — and why they matter more than ever in a profession where abstraction moves faster than almost anywhere else. If you feel like you can't keep up with every new framework, model, or tool release, the answer isn't to read faster. It's to step up a level. Fundamentals get talked about constantly — in sports, in hobbies, in software — but we rarely stop to define what one actually is. In today's...

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Maybe now more than ever before in our careers, fundamentals matter. You've probably heard this a million times, not just in software engineering, but across all industries, even hobbies, sports, other areas of your life, you're going to hear people talk about fundamentals.

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Getting back to the fundamentals is the kind of common phrase that you might hear. And I want to talk a little bit about why fundamentals are a useful concept. What even is a fundamental? What are we talking about when we say fundamentals?

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And how can you frame that in your career and in your career growth? How can you focus on fundamentals in the first place? My name is Jonathan Cottrell and you're listening to Developer Tea. My goal on this show is to help driven developers like you find clarity, perspective, and purpose

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