Ask HN: Isn't keeping up with tech for your career same as “timing the market”?
You have to &quot;invest&quot; in a low risk one that pays the bills. Then go for things that are medium risk, high returns.<p>Many people go in at the peak of hype where it&#x27;s &quot;overpriced&quot; and lose out. Even if it&#x27;s a good stack, you won&#x27;t be as good as the people who have years of experience in it now. It&#x27;s too late.<p>Just go for things that actually excite you. For me, it&#x27;s GPT-3 today. It&#x27;s too early for job openings, but mature and impactful enough that it feels like a secret weapon. I adopted Kotlin before Google officially did, because it was cutting down lines of code by half.<p>No matter how boring you are, there should be things that actually excite you as an expert, and those are the only ones worth investing in early. Since you already browse HN, you shouldn&#x27;t worry about missing out on them.