Why Self-Learning Is Hard

The first thing to realize is that learning to focus isn’t easy. You’re not going to be able to start producing novels of quality code from the start. Especially if you’ve never dealt with the reality of how easily distracted you are. 

Learning to focus requires pra...

Beyond the obvious benefits, lifelong learning offers many economic incentives:

• Adapt to a changing market. Some jobs are getting automated; others are being created.
• Spot new opportunities. When we expose ourselves to knowledge in various f...

The biggest mistake in learning is memorization. When living life you want to have a deep understanding of what you're doing and why you're doing it and how it works, from first-principles.

It's much more important to know the basics, the foundation really well, than really...