Tools for learning
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Jump to navigationJump to searchHow 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.
On learning and remembering
Reading foundational books/classics help build your base for learning new stuff and processing new information.
Revisiting your notes on a subject help consolidate the knowledge in your memory
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.
