I've been very random at improving myself as a backend engineer by (scrolling medium, trying out new techs, looking up definitions & shit) and I've been fairly new to reading books.

Does the great CF community have any kind of systematic method to improving as a backend engineer from a tech-wise perspective?

tl;dr if you're a BE engineer how do you make sure you're progressing in tech as much as possible, I am also interested in the answer if you're outside the BE domain.