have spent some time on NAS to get a better understanding of it for the preparation of my home network and cloud. it looks very much like Onedrive, file synching and sharing, uploading and downloading, and even the friendliness to users, even to non-technical users. it reminds me of a saying about Kung Fu, whichever school you are in, whatever you practice, after you reach to a certain level (most of the time, it means the highest level), you will notice something common among them. the very core, is similar.
back to technology, it’s pretty much the same. there are so many cloud providers, but the main functionalities remain the same, because the needs from the end users are similar, though there might be some differences on the interface, or each provider might have their own strength. we don’t need to (or we don’t have enough time and energy to, either) get familiar with all of them, one or two is good enough if we can understand this one or these two well enough.
for the future of tech people, what matters most will not be the familiarity to technical skills, though the skills are the foundation. it won’t provide much advantage with the technology becomes more and more user-friendly to end users, like the cloud. what matters will be the attitudes, the thinking, the outlook capacity, and something else related to soft skills as some of the people call.
and as a man of thirties, it’s not the most important thing to get familiar to various technologies, especially the basic ones. instead, he should try to do something more difficult and tougher, like how to plan, deploy and get the work done, because compared with the hard skills (those that can get the specific work done), soft skills and related work are much more difficult. not like how many computers we have imaged, or how many issues we have sorted out, these kinds of work can not be calculated and the feedback can not be got immediately. I think it’s the human weakness that we tend to be more confident to something solid, something that can be seen and can be calculated, but we are more afraid and worried when it comes to things that are abstract and that we tried but can not get any feedback, at least for a short period of time. but, it’s such more difficult things that get people become better and help people gain more experience for more difficult and tougher situations in the future.
it’s very easy for a fifth-grade student to do first-grade tests, but he should not turn back to first-grade, instead, he should try something of sixth-grade. and it does make some sense that if it’s tougher, it means we are becoming better, as we are getting new knowledge and more experience.