Watching the Tokyo Olympics this summer, especially Anna Kiesenhofer, the Austrian mathematician who won the gold medal in cycling, made me realize that the concept of training is not unique to pro-athletes but also applicable to other professions, such as engineers, musicians, dancers, and so on.
I’m a software engineer and I don’t think we consciously “train” ourselves. However, if you think about it, how we work as engineers is similar to how athletes train. To build something great, like Python, Docker, Linux, etc., or to invent technologies such as Hadoop, CNNs, and GANs, or…
