Comment by aristofun

No amount of reading or watching will make any meaningful difference in terms of skills.

Only work, i.e. producing, creating something, getting your hands dirty.

Beware also about the simple fact that most of so called youtube experts are only experts in youtube. By design.

Real experts are busy engineering things. You can’t be both because each area is extremely time and energy consuming.

> I’m not learning any new skills and maybe falling behind the industry

Welcome to reality. You are not falling behind. Majority of work “in the industry” is like this - boring, repetitive, not challenging.

Only challenging goal will push you to raise the skill bar.

Challenging software engineering goal == complex problem that you think is _almost_ beyond your current abilities.