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Staying Updated on Quantum Computing Advances 

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Yesterday Microsoft unveiled its new topological quantum chip. 

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Great news! 

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A couple of weeks ago, Huang from Nvidia and Zuckerberg from Meta shared their expectations for quantum computing applications in solving practical problems and everybody was talking about it!

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A few weeks before that, Google made waves with its Willow quantum supremacy experiment.

 

Wow!

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And so on and so forth. 

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You get the point.

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Now, if you add all the news from nearby fields, such as AI, there’s more than enough material to spend our whole day reading stuff here on LinkedIn or searching the web.

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The question, then, is relevant:

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How can we keep up to date and stay well-informed with so much information?

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I’m sorry to disappoint you, but you can't!

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You can't fully understand how Willow works and proves quantum supremacy while also grasping the physics behind Microsoft’s new topological chip at the same time.

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If by chance you’re an expert in both areas, you’ll certainly know about both. 

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But I’m sure that in a couple of weeks, there will be a new breakthrough in another area of quantum computing that you won’t be able to fully understand either.

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We just have to accept it!

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So, what can we do? 

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Here’s what I do:

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I accept that I can’t know everything in the field and, this is important, I put that into practice.

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For example, if someone asks me about a topic I don’t know enough about, or if I find myself in a conversation (offline or online) about something unfamiliar, I simply shut up or say that I don’t know.

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There’s nothing worse than pretending to know about something when you barely know anything about it.

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Here’s how I stay informed: I follow a few reliable people here on LinkedIn and read carefully what they share (of course, when appropriate). 

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That's it. I read them, and then I move on to my own things.

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Another excellent way to stay informed is to participate in events such as the Quantum Innovation Summit in Dubai.

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To sum up, this is what I do: I read reliable sources, attend quantum computing events (mostly online) and accept that I can't know everything. 

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Honestly, I could write a long list of topics concerning quantum computing that I know little about.

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But the same goes for you!

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Want to dive deeper? My eBook is a great place to start → https://www.ozatp.com/qaf

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