Ask HN: How do you learn?
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If the tools were good we wouldn't be developing so many of them. Part of the reason for the ferment is that the last generation of tools sucked, so we need another generation of tools, and another, ...
If you learn the foundations of something then you pick up the variations based on those foundations more easily.
There are no languages where you start from scratch just iterations on the past.
There are no languages where you start from scratch just iterations on the past.
This is not a rant, in fact it may be a good thing that there are more options available now than ever when it comes to building things. The fact that we're building good tools to build things is also amazing. But my question is, how do you guys approach learning?
There are two types of learning, for finding employment and just to explore. I do both. My system for learning revolves around reading roughly 20% of a book, going through 20% of an online tutorial or course, giving up because I have a short attention span, and restarting multiple times.
How do you learn new technologies quickly, in a scenario where you may not be in a position to commit +100-200 hours to actually learning it and just want to try something cool over the weekend or so?