one of the most difficult things about being in tech or breaking into tech
is trying to keep up with all the tech trends there is so much to learn it seems like every
day something new is coming out something new to learn and it brings you to the question how am
i ever going to keep up with all this today we are going to be talking about some ways that i
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speaking of tech trends you know i have been putting a lot of my time and energy into learning
blockchain development it is something i have a huge passion for and am very interested in
alongside that i always try and share with you different resources and tools that i find along
the way so that you too can check them out and continue learning with me speaking of i really
wanted to share with you about kudos which is a blockchain based distributed computing
network that allows users to rent different uh computing power to and from the network
in exchange for cryptocurrency or fiat currency kudos empowers users who have
access to excess computing power and creates an economically superior green alternative to aws
and other cloud computer providers think of it like the airbnb or uber of computing i
also thought it was really cool how they are a huge green alternative to aws and other cloud
computer providers not to mention they have a huge community online which i think is really amazing
to continue to learn from and engage with others in the community so i've linked down below both
their telegram and discord channels so make sure to click on them and go check them out
keeping up with technology can feel like a job in itself you're working full-time
in the tech industry whether you are a designer qa software engineer any role really and you're
trying to balance both your day job probably have a side hustle of some sort if you work in tech
and personal life it's just so much how are you expected to keep up with the latest tech
trends you can hardly keep up with work itself or maybe that's just me anyways i have found
there are a few ways that really help me stay connected with tech trends and different things
coming down the pipeline without having to feel super overwhelmed the first one being
joining some newsletters i find having some tech newsletters that come into my inbox whether it
be weekly or monthly a really great way to easily keep on top of tech trends coming down i'm a part
of a few newsletters and one thing i notice is as there are hot tech topics coming down the pipeline
you really see a trend where it be different newsletter headings or titles in it or topics
in it and they'll kind of all be to some degree the same topics because it's what's trending
from there if a topic really interests me that's trending i will start doing my own research but
if it's a topic that's trending and i don't really have any interest in it
just being aware that it's trending and what it's all about by reading you know a paragraph on it in
the newsletter is enough for me okay one of my favorite newsletters that i really like is tldr
which stands for too long didn't read and i really like this pretty much as you can guess based on
the title it's short snippets of interesting tech that's coming up and keeps me informed another
newsletter that i really like is called the hustle it gets delivered to me and it's a really short
newsletter that covers a lot of different business and tech uh trending topics in under five minutes
so it's a quick read and once again if there are headlines in that newsletter that really entice me
i'll go and do my own research okay next thing i do is i am a part of a few online groups so some
slack groups or some discord groups i'm definitely not active in them meaning i'm not participating
in the discussions or even sharing different resources i find just because of lack of time but
i'm very thankful for the people who are active in them and share different resources
i'll link some slack and discord channels down below and it's a great way if you are
interested in engaging with the tech community a little bit further and seeing what other people
are working on or maybe reading about to stay connected in a tech community even if you are
like myself working remote which can feel kind of isolating at times having these different groups
to be a part of is a great way to feel connected to the greater picture the bigger picture
okay another way i always stay up to date with tech trends is social media
and some of you i know either love social media or don't love it and that's totally fine
i am someone that i think i'm a huge believer of if you are following the right accounts
quality accounts that are providing what you are looking to hope to get out of social media
it can be a really positive place to be for me i use social media obviously for
tiffin tech to share a different tech and inspire others to break into tech but i
also use it to see what other people are working on what's trending and how i do that is ensure i'm
following different tech accounts that i really love i'm going to link down below some different
tech instagrams that i'm a huge fan of one of the more recent ones as you know i've really dove into
as i said multiple times in this video uh blockchain and cryptocurrency and
and really web 3 as a whole and with that comes the metaverse and one of the instagram accounts
that i'm obsessed with currently is called the metaverse and i think they're almost at a million
followers and they post two to three times a day different news about blockchain cryptocurrency
virtual reality and they do it in really nice snippets so you just get like a
i don't know under 30 seconds of what's going on and it's a great way to stay informed and i find
also too inspired to see what other people are doing another way i stay up to date with tech
trends is to learn to dedicate x amount of time in my week even if it's 30 minutes to an hour a week
to learn about the new technologies as a software developer it's my job to ensure i'm
up to date with best practices and standards and that requires taking time to learn you really need
to prioritize learning and carve out time because i know we all are so busy and there isn't enough
time in a day to do everything so you need to make it a priority and understand just how important
it is when i learn new things i find that it's a great way to a learn about a new technology
but also too it shows me what is trending out there even if you spend a week learning
different very high levels different parts of the technologies whether it be cloud or whether it be
as i mentioned blockchain or a little bit more about a specific you know programming
language you don't need to dive into it to become a professional but just spend a few maybe an hour
a week on a different technology and see which one kind of sticks and which one you really enjoy
because then maybe you'll end up being really engulfed in that engulfed is that a word engulfed
taken let's say taken by that that topic and want to kind of further your knowledge with that okay
the last way i stay up to date with tech trends is talking to my friends even if they aren't in tech
i feel like a lot of the tech trends recently have touched every everyone's so fascinated by
technology and reading about it online and maybe it's just my friends but i think it's pretty much
everyone nowadays and being able to talk about what's coming up and what technology companies
were in the news or trending on social media and just having conversations with people that are
in tech and also equally if not more important conversations with people that are not in tech
to get their perspectives on it as well because i find it can be so different from one person to
the next that it's just really important to get a lot of perspective on it by speaking to different
people i really hope this video will help you keep up on tech trends just remember the most important
thing is you cannot keep up with all tech trends once you realize that and accept that i think it
makes being in tech a lot more fun and a lot less pressure we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to
know it all especially as technologists and have it all figured out but at the end of the
day that's absolutely impossible so find ways to just get these snippets of information at a very
high level and when something interests you then dive into it further thank you all for watching
this video i hope you found it very valuable and helpful in your tech journey make sure if
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out to some of these subscribers here as always i love you i see you you all are just ah you make
every day the best day reading your comments and questions and so many of you take so much time
to write really thought provoking comments and i just love reading through them all so thank you
for that also make sure to click the links down below to check out kudos and learn more about
them and check out their communities okay i'll see you all soon thanks everyone ice in my veins