My strategy is to work hard on my ability to read other people's code. I think I've noticed that the better I get at that, the more "deeply" I understand the en

My strategy is to work hard on my ability to read other people's code. I think I've noticed that the better I get at that, the more "deeply" I understand the environment. Documentation also frequently sucks, probably because it's hard to keep it sync'ed up with the code.