Tools for learning
How to deal with large volume of information:
The focus was heavily on how to get a broad range of insights of what is happening in the field
- crowd-sourcing via communities, e.g. https://squirrelsquadron.com/ or CTO Craft (https://ctocraft.com/) - focusing on only what is currently important - feed newsletter links and content etc into https://www.zenfetch.com so it can answer questions for you when you have them
Sources for learning:
Hacker news Reddit aggregators
Newsletters: https://www.pointer.io/ https://tldr.tech/ Hacker news digested into a newletter with notable posts from the week: https://hackernewsletter.com/
podcasts
Troubleshooting agile - https://agileconversations.com/troubleshooting-agile-podcast/ No nonsense agile - https://nononsenseagile.podbean.com/ Engineering enablement - https://getdx.com/podcast/ 0800-Devops - https://croz.net/community/0800-devops/ Waveform - https://podcasts.voxmedia.com/show/waveform-the-mkbhd-podcast Unlearn - https://www.unlearnpodcast.com/
Where did 'tech Twitter' go? Mastodon, Threads, Discord etc.
Reading foundational books/classics help build your base for learning new stuff and processing new information.
Ways of learning / remembering what you reaad or listened to:
Revisiting your notes on a subject
Spaced repetition of your learning - testing yourself on the subject: Anki app https://apps.ankiweb.net/ Create your own deck to test yourself or use some of the publicly available decks at https://ankiweb.net/shared/decks?search=english
Note-taking and knowledge management: https://obsidian.md/
Zettelkasten method
Taking notes helps in consolidating the learning in memory: https://bear.app/ - dictate notes on on your smartwatch, transcribed into text. Great for driving, walks, running.
