I love how you've got so many responses, and hope I'm adding signal more than just repeating what everyone has already said.
It's crazy overwhelming to look at all of the technology and opportunity out there and to know that you can't keep up with it all. But you don't need to keep up with everything. You need to know what tools are out there, and what their general purpose is. 15 minutes with Google will inform you enough about any single technology. In one day you can knock out 10 or 20 paradigms.
Once you know what's out there, you learn more about the things that are specifically relevant to what you're working on and what you will be working on in the near future. And you Google around to see what paradigms are being used by people working on similar problems.
Especially if you already have a specific thing you want to accomplish, it'll only be a week or so before you've narrowed your needs down to just a few specific tools. And those are tools that have arisen from decades of refinement, and will be relevant for at least a decade on their own even if they'll only be the "coolest" framework for a few months. You don't need to be at the forefront of every technology, you just need to be good enough.
And knowing that makes staying relevant feel a lot less scary. Most people only know a few things, and they only _really_ know one or two things. And each of those things is good enough to last at least 5 years if they were the most relevant thing when they were learned. Often they'll be good for multiple decades.
So keep your head up, and pay attention to what's cool and hot, but don't feel behind if you've never really understood what AWS does, or how Angular works, or if you don't know the difference between Unsupervised and Supervised machine learning. When you need the tools, you'll be able to learn them in time to remain relevant.
It's crazy overwhelming to look at all of the technology and opportunity out there and to know that you can't keep up with it all. But you don't need to keep up with everything. You need to know what tools are out there, and what their general purpose is. 15 minutes with Google will inform you enough about any single technology. In one day you can knock out 10 or 20 paradigms.
Once you know what's out there, you learn more about the things that are specifically relevant to what you're working on and what you will be working on in the near future. And you Google around to see what paradigms are being used by people working on similar problems.
Especially if you already have a specific thing you want to accomplish, it'll only be a week or so before you've narrowed your needs down to just a few specific tools. And those are tools that have arisen from decades of refinement, and will be relevant for at least a decade on their own even if they'll only be the "coolest" framework for a few months. You don't need to be at the forefront of every technology, you just need to be good enough.
And knowing that makes staying relevant feel a lot less scary. Most people only know a few things, and they only _really_ know one or two things. And each of those things is good enough to last at least 5 years if they were the most relevant thing when they were learned. Often they'll be good for multiple decades.
So keep your head up, and pay attention to what's cool and hot, but don't feel behind if you've never really understood what AWS does, or how Angular works, or if you don't know the difference between Unsupervised and Supervised machine learning. When you need the tools, you'll be able to learn them in time to remain relevant.