This is a great article, I can totally relate.
I have been doing work that had not involved deep work for maybe a year, I kinda had plateaued my learning as a result of an unchallenging and demotivating work environment, I realised this is not what 'I' wanted to do, so I got out. I have hacker news to thank for this partly too.
4 months later I feel like a kid again my mind is like a sponge for knowledge, and because I have cleared my desk of non beneficial work, and as a result I have been learning at a fantastic rate.
Things I have been spending my team on include, functional programming techniques, JavaScript client architecture, pure REST api design, algorithms, visualisations in the browser (d3), geojson, node, mongo, redis, to name but a few
4 months later I feel like a kid again my mind is like a sponge for knowledge, and because I have cleared my desk of non beneficial work, and as a result I have been learning at a fantastic rate.
Things I have been spending my team on include, functional programming techniques, JavaScript client architecture, pure REST api design, algorithms, visualisations in the browser (d3), geojson, node, mongo, redis, to name but a few