12 Things I Learned During My First Year as a Machine Learning Engineer

Then I'd sit down, look at my notes from the previous day and open up Slack. I'd read the messages and open up any links to papers or blog posts the team had shared, there'd be a few, this field moves fast. Once the messages were cleared, I'd skim through the papers and blog posts and read the ones which stuck. Usually there was something which may have helped with what I was working on. Reading took up to an hour, sometimes more, depending on what it was. Reading is the ultimate meta-skill, if there was a better way of doing what I was doing, I could save time and effort by learning it and implementing it.