ok continuing my long list of rambling sessions about tech on the art website for people who know tech. i've been really feeling that barrier that you get where you know enough about a subject that you know youre just a beginner and really out of your depth when you go beyond the basics. which is really fun when you're studying for an IT certification- so many times i'll visit a subject on the course and be like "wait i dont know what the fuck that means and what if i get tested on this edge case thing" so i spend the next five hours reading all i can about what is actually being talked about.
i know that it's actually really normal to feel this way and it's actually a pretty productive way to approach learning, but it still irritates me to no end that i pay for expensive learning materials and i still find myself supplementing it with external media because i find the material way too generalized and vague