# Stepping Out Of The Knowledge Zone

DevFeed: [Stepping Out Of The Knowledge Zone](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/stepping-out-of-the-knowledge-zone-19159.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://artsy.github.io/blog/2022/04/13/stepping-out-of-the-knowledge-zone/>)

Published: 2022-04-13T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Artsy](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/artsy.md>)

Topics: [Elixir](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/elixir.md>), [Learning](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/learning.md>), [Ruby](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ruby.md>), [Rails](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rails.md>)

Tags: [backend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backend.md>), [blog](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog.md>), [blog-post](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog-post.md>), [cypress](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cypress.md>), [elixir](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/elixir.md>), [forque](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/forque.md>), [front-end](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/front-end.md>), [horizon](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/horizon.md>), [integrity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/integrity.md>), [learning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/learning.md>), [ruby](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ruby.md>), [ruby-on-rails](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ruby-on-rails.md>), [teams](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/teams.md>), [velocity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/velocity.md>)

## AI overview

A first-person reflection on moving beyond familiar Ruby on Rails work and embracing the challenge of learning Elixir. The author connects this transition to Artsy shipping work and a broader willingness to remain open to being a beginner.

## Source excerpt

As I am writing my first blog post for Artsy, here is a short introduction on who I am: My name is Kaja and I am an engineer in our Berlin entity. As a Ruby-born programmer I am calling myself a backend engineer, but that also may change and is more about emotional identification and less about what I actually do (as you will see in this blog post). My background is not in engineering at all. In university I graduated in philosophy and historical linguistics, both the most impractical but most beautifully theoretical subjects I can think of. I really love being in the world of ideas and thought experiments that challenge the current status of what is, as opposed to what is thinkable. At Artsy I am currently working in the PX (Partner Experience) Team and since I joined 1 year ago, most of my time in the PX team has been dedicated to the implementation of the Artsy Shipping feature. In the backend I helped tying the ties between the external ARTA-API (a white glove shipping company) and our own service that is managing the shipping and order statuses of the artworks that are ordered online. In the front end I implemented some forms for that feature and some so called hooks. I felt like a fish in the water with these tasks, because the company that I had worked at before was a shipping company and I did the same thing from the other side of the API relationship. In the same language (Ruby on Rails). Here is another fact about me that is a premises for what comes next: I enjoy to be a learner of new things much more than being an expert about things that I already know. Of course being an expert is also flattering the ego, but after a while it can feel repetitive and make your soul feel old and tired. While the experience of being new to something and not an expert at all can give you a rejuvenating prickle. On the other side it can be scary to admit not knowing something and also the ego will feel small and hurt. But I learned that overcoming the hurt ego is my way to