What do you love to do?
Do you love coding?
Do you love design?
Would you love to open your own business?
Whatever you really like to do, learn more about that craft but also learn new skills.
We are in a world that is moving so fast and you want to try new things continuously.
It works also if you don't really love to do any particular thing right now. Trying new things will let you explore and find something that you would enjoy doing it for the next 5-10-15 years.
Don't be in a rush to set your goals in stones.
Stay patient and optimistic. Life is long.
This is just my opinion. How I would do it if I was in your position. You do you in the best way you can :)
I love to build stuff from the ground up - but I rarely get such opportunities in the corporate world. And I am unable to take risk by going on my own (financial constraints)
The corporate life just sucks the soul out of me, and by the time am back to home.. I have nothing left to do creative work. It would be great to have a partner with whom I could collaborate, but I seem to be socially awkward too :(
It would be nice to have features like the one in ReadLang where I can click on multiple words and get them translated. I like the part where I can listen the sentences.
Are you going to apply this to any article on the web?
What will be the business model of your service?
The thing is, these aren't automatically translated books, we're matching real book translations, so at least our approach isn't applicable to articles online.
We have a lot of features planned, from word lookup, to hooking them up to real audiobooks, and a lot more.
Our motto is "Provide maximum good" so we don't want premium-only features, and all the books in the public domain would always be free, but as our business model, we'd like to offer recent, in copyright books in this format for sale.
My favorite aspect is that it seems like there is less mental overhead/stress - that makes coding easier and more enjoyable for me - but there's no way to quantify that other than I don't feel drained at the end of the week. It seems to me there is a lot less you have to keep in your head (state) once you "get it" vs. ng directives (state+behavior+scope) or 2-way backbone data binding (kitchen sink). Personally not a big fan of Webpack only because it doesn't have all the nice plugins and addons available for grunt/gulp.
The React developer add-on for chrome is pretty impressive, better than the ones for ng. When things go really bad (white page of death), it's much much faster to find and fix the issue than with other frameworks using the chrome extension. It provides better insight into what your code is doing/try to do.
The hardest part I found when starting React was deciding to Flux or not to Flux; and then which router to use. A couple hours to kicking around a few starter kits should be expected.
Can you please clarify something. You say you vote for React+Redux,but then at the end go on to say the difficulty of using Flux or not and what router to go with. Are you saying this as a reason that you went with Redux, or are you saying you use Flux in addition to Redux?
I don't think he/she meant that they used a flux pattern in addition to redux. Even though redux differs in many ways (self-admittedly) to canon Flux implementations, it's largely regarded to be in the flux family when folks are weighing up alternatives.
The problem detailed reared itself in my own efforts too, all the flux implementations promise elegance until a router comes along, which in many ways is another actor exerting control over what's on the user's screen.
You have to then make the choice on whether you want the router to handle what high level components are displayed, or if you want changes in the router to feed directly into changes in your state tree and then have it handled from there. That's where the complication comes in.
About point 1.: What about Nordic countries like Norway or Sweden? :)
About point 2.: Hope it is something related to genomics, renewable energies and cancer research
I am trying to use OKR in my projects. They help me to stay focused in what I need to do and see progresses every quarter.
I am using WeekDone for tracking them.
Moreover, using Todoist for keeping track of my todo's, Quip for my documents and Trello as my default board.
Agree that taking breaks from technology and staying offline is very helpful to keep me focused.
Whatever you really like to do, learn more about that craft but also learn new skills. We are in a world that is moving so fast and you want to try new things continuously.
It works also if you don't really love to do any particular thing right now. Trying new things will let you explore and find something that you would enjoy doing it for the next 5-10-15 years.
Don't be in a rush to set your goals in stones. Stay patient and optimistic. Life is long.
This is just my opinion. How I would do it if I was in your position. You do you in the best way you can :)