I do. People underestimate the effect of continuous learning for years. Think about this: a semester of college CS course has 2 hours of lecture and one hour of tutorial per week, plus on average 15 hours of homework. That’s 18 hours a week. Now go check how much time you spent on your phone. Let me guess, 4 hours, at least? Cut it in half, and you get your 2 hours back. Besides, deep dive in work is part of the job, so you can usually have some additional time. More importantly, we are not in college pursuing perfect GPA any more. Instead, we can follow 80-20 rule. All-in-all, if we can spend 6 hours a week, that’s 1/3 of a course’s load, more than enough to cover a single course. In 10 years, you would cover at least the content of 20 courses. Trust me, you would cover way more because knowledge converges and you will learn faster as you will be able to connect more dots.

10 years look long, but pass quickly. That’s why my approach is a system: it does not guarantee success, but it maximizes then chance of success and happiness.