Approach how to spend your learning time based on your priorities.

Priority TODO List

Whenever I want to learn a thing I start by creating an empty document about it.

  1. Create a TODO section in the document.

    • Keep this list ordered by your priorities.

    • Any time you add something or you priorities change, reorder it accordingly.

  2. Add the concepts you want to learn to the list (ordered by your priorities).

  3. Take first item from the list and act according to its type:

    1. A specific resource or task → study it / do it.

    2. General concept / idea → explore it.

      • E.g. type it to the browser and read first five links.

      • Don’t spend too much time on it, the purpose is to find good resources.

      • Trying to explore and study at the same time is often counterproductive.

        • You want to spend your time on the most prioritized stuff not the newest.

  4. Don’t change the topic (e.g. website) while exploring or studying.

    • When you meet something you need to explore further, insert it to the list.

TODO list is not grouped by topics!

Perhaps some topic may have high priority in terms of general understanding, but the priority of its details may be very low.

Be lazy in terms of your own writing!

In case you find a perfect study resource, just use it.

Choose wisely what’s worth your efforts, don’t reinvent the wheel!

Apart from practicing there are two good reasons to do something.

  1. The thing you want doesn’t exist.

  2. You think you can do noticeably better than what’s already there.