Work Smarter Not Harder – Creativity: Technical Wizardry

Dujon Walsham • 18 February 2019

How to pick up stuff quickly

I have been asked a few times as to how I have been able to obtain new skills, technologies and experience in such quick speeds and also with deep knowledge at the same time.

And the answer is .....I really have no idea! well to be fair I've got a little bit but it's quite difficult to explain as when you’re driven enough you don't really notice exactly the work you put in and whilst it may seem quick to the outside looking in, it really feels like a slow grind to make it where you want to be.

Technical Wizardry
This is really a big element in how I'm able to pick up and learn a lot of new things.

To breakdown the meaning, it just comes to the art of creativity. And just wanting to do certain things.

For example, in projects, solutions or any kind of technical or business objective you may be expected to design something which may not be remotely possible and can come across many stumbling blocks. Mostly it tends to be technologies in which others would specialise in or even some that little to no one knows at all.

This can be seen as just using initiative to try and understand it more, but this is where the creativity kicks in. In my cases it normally leads down the path of developer/devOps type of stumbling blocks, everything from PowerShell/VBScript/SQL/XML/C#/C+

Basically I'm saying the quickest way to pick up new things is to have objectives or yourself try to think of something you want to perform that sounds ridiculous or farfetched.

One of the examples I can give was how I picked up more on PowerShell. I thought I would come up with the idea of writing a script which would be able to the following

1. Open a web page
2. Connect to my private media server
3. Download my music
4. Organize it by Artist, Album, Year, Genre, Compilation
5. Grab all of the Album Art and map to them

just a little something to expand the mind. Hell I even had a script which could count how many items were in the fridge.

Another element that comes with Technical Wizardry is that EVERY and ANY type of requirement can be done. Whether it can be done out of the box or not

and that's really the core drive of the creative side and developing of skills on a broader scale

Next part will focus more on the artillery of the technical skillset which will be coming vert soon

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