Ask HN: How should I spend my annual prof. dev budget?
I’ve got a few hundred or so in professional development budget that goes away at the end of the year.<p>I work in machine learning, search, recommender systems. I frankly get more value “doing” (and failing a lot) than books, courses, and the like. Though of course there are notable exceptions. Usually they are the top 1-5% of books in terms of quality to hold my attention.<p>I’m a principal engineer. Leadership is another area I could spend money in as professional dev.<p>I’m at a loss.<p>So I thought I’d ask the Internet. Don’t stress about whether it’s going to don’t into the letter of the law, I’m just interested in some unique ideas folks may have.