Short study about reaching plateau

April 6, 2017

Introduction

Julia chose a small topic to study every day. She did some study about reaching plateau. This year she will be on her job 7th year. She never did any job in her career before more than 7 years.

She has some interest to do study "reach plateau", can she keeping learning new algorithm? keep learning new things?

Study of reaching plateau 

Julia googled and read the article - Bob Sullivan: How Plateaus Prevent You From Career Success.

One of examples is Google ads director, old story back to 2012 

One character you’ll meet is Alberto Savoia, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Savoia has had successes and plateaus in his career, but what he learned is the value of failing quickly. He came up with the concept of “pretotyping” – creating barely functional mockups to test how a product or service would work hunt in the real world. Savoia went on to preside as the engineering director over AdWords, Google GOOG -0.43%’s wildly profitable advertising engine. He now helps other entrepreneurs “pretotype” their ideas to become tech standouts.

Julia chose this article to warmup her English vocabulary, learn some new words, and do some research on some arguments:

The book: The Plateau Effect: Getting from Stuck to Success

comfortable zones
the plateau effect
a force of nature as real and fundamental as gravity
sap life from us
grow numb quicker
gadgets
top out quickly - what is top out quickly?
peaking out - ?
plough ahead and change course
greedy algorithm - behave according to the algorithm - the best short-term solution, make instant progress
some of the world's most successful companies and people have been willing to make "retrograde progress" - to take a step back, "retrograde progress"
psychophysicists call the "just-noticeable difference"
setting clear, objective markers
the ability to fail fast
pretotyping