I totally agree. Far too often, I come across people who are not willing to commit the time to learn something properly in the first place -- even if that area

I totally agree. Far too often, I come across people who are not willing to commit the time to learn something properly in the first place -- even if that area forms the bulk of their work. I come across the same reluctance to read any substantive resource, whether that be freely available online documentation, man pages, RFCs. Blog posts and Stack Exchange questions are great and have their place but shouldn't be the foundation of one's knowledge when the work requires an in-depth understanding of that system, technology, language or framework.