>>12178527If his goal is 'be the next Elon Musk' then first and foremost be a salesman who can network funding, because that's how Elon Musk really got his start, he raised enough capital for Tesla they put him on the board. Before that he was paid out $22 million for some shitty classifieds website startup he wrote in Java back in 1995 because he conned a few big newspapers into using his software with his personality/sales. Honestly if you want a ton of money in tech, and you don't want to spent a decade studying 24/7 like this guy, just go into b2b sales, raising capital, etc. For example when I worked in fintech a few years ago the biggest earners were not us plebs who sat beside quants and translated matlab into optimized code, it was the freaking sales guy who sold our fintech software to banks. He made gagillions and last time I checked was CEO of some gagillion dollar global finance corp so in effect, Elon Musk.
If your goal is to home study shit like 'engineering' meaning math and other technical subjects, you need to practice and test yourself on a regular basis not take notes and just read through a million texts. By testing yourself I mean find old exams that hopefully have solutions (almost all universities have these on w/e course website), or work through Putnam and Beyond book, or try competitive programming. The biggest problem with self-study VS university student is there is no feedback. You have no idea if there are gaps in your knowledge because you aren't doing TA observed labs and routine testing, you aren't doing competitions which fill the void of tests for somebody self studying.
