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I recently joined a company as a senior developer with a partially unfamiliar stack, and it's very interesting to me how much my style of learning contrasts wit

I recently joined a company as a senior developer with a partially unfamiliar stack, and it's very interesting to me how much my style of learning contrasts with others in that way. I regularly am recommended to "read through all the docs, step through all the code", which might work for some. My brain just wants to switch off whenever I do that. Instead a day or two of fixing problems - implementing a fix, seeing how/why it doesn't work, trying a new one - suddenly I get it. Everyone's different.

grogenaut 9y ago
One of the things I see in your comment that marks you as more senior is you didn't say "push it out" on the fix but "see how / why it didn't work, trying again". Just because you wrote code doesn't mean it needs to go out, just because a systems isn't to your brain's pattern doesn't mean it needs to be gutted and aligned with your brain immediately upon encounter.