Chapter 7Kaizen
Kaizen is a Japanese term for continuous improvement. No matter your level of programming mastery, you can always do better. Obvious, perhaps, but Iâve met programmers who appeared to peak about five to ten years into their career and thenâ¦just stick there.
Continuous improvement and mastery of our trade takes some obvious forms: learning a new programming language, broadening your skills in a new area of computing, or building your chops by contributing to an open source project. These are all great ways to challenge yourself and keep fresh. However, think of kaizen in broader terms.
By mastery, Iâm not just referring to technologies. There are programmers who mastered C decades ago and have been writing system software ...
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