Tim Ferriss, the world’s most famous life coach, advises learning coding to automate!
Learn Automation for a better career and life with a regular sense of satisfaction and joy.
Today, I saw a LinkedIn feed by Tim Ferriss.
It links to an old article written by Clive Thompson (a Journalist), that Tim posted on his blog in March 2019. Here, I show a few quotes.
“Code every day. This is a big one. You should try to do some coding every day — at least, say, a half hour.”
I’m not going to quit my job to build a software company or get hired as a coder. But coding makes me more efficient, more empowered, at my job and in everyday life, often in weird and delightful ways.
“Don’t learn to code, learn to automate,” writes the coder Erik Dietrich. This is bang on.
“I’ve written tons of other scripts to automate boring things.”
“So one enormous pleasure in learning to code is that you begin to see how you can automate many difficult, onerous tasks.”“Nearly every white-collar job on the planet involves tons of work that can be done more efficiently if you know a bit of coding.”
“when you fix the bug, and things start working — there’s a sudden, narcotic rush of pleasure that’s almost unlike anything you’ve ever experienced. It’s delightful, people. There are few things in life that give you that absolute sense of mastery and joy.”
“The point is, one of the best ways to motivate yourself to learn coding is to build little apps that actually do something you need done. It’s deeply motivating. If you’re coding in an abstract way, doing tutorials, it’s easy — when you get stuck — to think, ah, screw it, and stop.”
“learn some coding so you can become much more valuable at your existing career and maybe move up in pay.”
“I wrote a little web-scraper that would check the page every five minutes, and once it detected the homework was posted, it’d shoot a text message to me and my son — so he could now do whatever he wanted, knowing he’d get an automated alert”
Clive is a journalist; if he can find time and learn coding to do automation, really, there is no reason one software professional (e.g. manual tester, developer, business analyst, architect, and project manager) cannot.
I am a test automation coach advocating for all software professionals learning Test Automation.
Test Automation = Automation + Testing.
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