You will be newbie forever. Get good at the beginner mode, learning new programs, asking dumb questions, making stupid mistakes, soliticting help, and helping others with what you learn (the best way to learn yourself).
If you are in school today the technologies you will use as an adult tomorrow have not been invented yet. Therefore, the life skill you need most is not the mastery of specific technologies, but mastery of the technium as a whole — how technology in general works. I like to think of this ability to deal with any type of new technology as techno-literacy.
Individual differences and the free exchange of ideas are necessary to human intelligence because it’s easy for a human to get stuck on one idea and then rationalize away all opposition. One scientist has one idea, but then gets stuck on it and becomes an obstacle to the next generation of scientists. A Friendly seed AI doesn’t rationalize. Rationalization of mistaken ideas is a complex functional adaptation that evolves in imperfectly deceptive social organisms.
Likewise, there are limits to how much experience any one human can accumulate, and we can’t share experiences with each other. There’s a limit to what one human can handle, and so far it hasn’t been possible to build bigger humans…
Leisure is essential to civilization, and in former times leisure for the few was only rendered possible by the labors of the many. But their labors were valuable, not because work is good, but because leisure is good. And with modern technique it would be possible to distribute leisure justly without injury to civilization.
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