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Apprenticeship Patterns Blog - Expand Your Bandwidth

For this week’s blog post, I read the section  “Expand your bandwidth” from chapter five of the book Apprenticeship Patterns by Dave Hoover and Adewale Oshineye. The main reason this pattern was Interesting was because of a quote that stood to me. It was “[L]earning about what we don’t know is often more important than doing things we already know how to do.” This quote is so accurate. Especially in a technology-driven world, it is always evolving. so, developers must learn new technologies and software’s all the time. It is important to prioritize learning what you do not know. Later in the section author mentioned the overwhelming aspect of learning new information and expanding your ability, it is important to expand your knowledge and experiences in multiple dimensions such as: reading a book, social media, blogs Groups, and other academic resources.

The second half of the pattern talked about how Once you understand how to Expand Your Bandwidth, the next step is to understand when to Expand Your Bandwidth. Developer needs to use the skills you accrued wisely, or you may end up in the state of being become obsessed with gathering and consuming new information, particularly as it becomes easier. This can lead you to  “accelerate your learning, it will slow down your development velocity, and therefore will have diminishing returns if applied for more than a few months.”  I also liked the story that was mentioned after reading Kent Beck’s Extreme programming in which how it inspired the author to expand his bandwidth by attending a local agile software development group and the outcome was getting a new job with the new experiences that was acquired during which changed the career and apprenticeship forever. This pattern has most definitely changed the way I think of learning new skills. I think it is important to expand my bandwidth by taking new opportunities that are out there now. This reminds me of our capstone class, we learned multiple new software's which did expand our bandwidth and I am thankful that we did get to use much software that is used in the workplace. hopefully, it will also change our careers. 

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