**The Unimaginable Knowledge Universe**
While I was mostly in the #Haskell community, I had the illusion that I could control all the knowledge. The traffic in Haskell forums is relatively small (as I see now), so if you have 15-20 minutes daily, you can be on top of everything.
You can read all the blog posts, and you can even participate in various GitHub discussions to be aware of the latest bugs.
When I started learning #Rust and participating in the Rust community, I quickly realized that it's impossible to do the same there. So much stuff happens in Rust! The new knowledge created by other people is vastly bigger than you can comprehend physically.
This coincided with my situation at work. Previously, I was always in a situation where I wrote the entire system from scratch. Now, I work on a huge legacy codebase that is impossible to understand fully. Moreover, it's developing and improving much faster than I can keep up.
This resulted in me having severe anxiety about not being able to keep up with modern tech, reaming a dinosaur who only knows old tricks, and losing touch with the current state of affairs.
How do you manage this? What's your strategy for learning new things while simultaneously using that knowledge? How do you manage your time and capabilities?
@chshersh I'm pretty sure one can't be on top of "everything" that's happening in the Haskellworld either.
I'd expect it would be qualified under "everything important" or something like that real quick if you start to peek beyond the few well-known agoras.
But it's a healthy thing to do! Perhaps one *should* have a certain threshold of importance in all the tangential areas to avoid feeling overwhelmed.
