HACKER Q&A
📣 thinkxfeeling

What do you do with your learning?


I'm really curious what everyone here does with their learning? Do you take notes, keep a log, write blogs? Do you work on some sort of project? Maybe share some of your process and/or show off some examples. :)

Edit: have these activities helped with your learning? Do they sometimes distract you instead?

  👤 jviotti Accepted Answer ✓
For some of the topics I really cared about, I wrote notes on my website. See the "Notes" section at the front page of https://www.jviotti.com.

For example, here are some notes on Automata Theory: https://www.jviotti.com/notes/automata-theory and CSP: https://www.jviotti.com/notes/csp.

I don't expect anybody to look at them though. The process of creating them gave me all the reward I was looking for at that point.

👤 giantg2
Nothing. I'm tired of learning. If it's useful stuff at home, it will just stick. The stuff I learn at work is used once and then thrown away because that's how management has structured the company. They don't care about developing resources or promoting efficiency. It's all about redundant resources and learn something to build a thing and context switch away when it's done (or even before).

Probably all bad stuff to say since I've started another job on a different team at the same company. It's my first day and I'm tired of watching training videos.

👤 Kenneth39
It depends on the person. We've had fans of scientific activity since the first year. Well, I had problems even writing down lectures.

Sooner or later, you just get embarrassed and try harder. Sometimes you even turn to platitudes like: https://custom-writing.org/blog/36-best-websites

I mean, everyone has a limit when people start to act.

👤 sent-hil
I generally takes notes when it's something that I want to remember. Sometimes just the act of writing it down helps you remember better. I try to do spaced repetition occasionally to help me remember the most important things.

It really depends what your goals are. Do you really want to remember every single thing you learn? Then be like SuperMemo founder and capture everything and do spaced repetition.