Pragmatic Investment Plan

• knowledge portfolio - your skills and talents
• manage it as you would manage your financial portfolio
• relating learning to “free” time is a recipe for failure
• be deliberate about it
• allocate appropriate time
• use this time wisely
• be more effective in learning

Have a concrete plan

• be SMART
• different goals over time
  • now
    • buy a book
  • next year
    • be proficient
  • 3 years
    • write a book
• planning is important
  • “The planning is more important than the plan. The plan will change.” Eisenhower.

Diversify

• don’t put all eggs into one basket
• consider risk vs return value
  • eg. .NET - low risk (mainstream technology), but low return on investment
  • Haskell - high risk (not mainstream), but may be the next language, and may go nowhere
• always valuable
  • but knowledge investment always brings value
  • it may impact the way you think
  • how you solve problems
  • so everything you learn is valuable

Active investments

• have feedback
• ensure you can evaluate your plan
• you may want to revise your plan as you go

Regular investments

• dollar-cost averaging
  • sometimes you pay too much
  • sometimes you get a great deal
  • it smoothes over time
• invest a minimal amount or time
• on regular basis
• on average it will bring good results

Reevaluate your plan periodically

• what changed?
• what doesn’t work?
• what will you do?

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