About a year ago, I did an experiment where I wrote down everything I learned while coding for one month [0]. Ever since, I have been keeping an engineering not

About a year ago, I did an experiment where I wrote down everything I learned while coding for one month [0]. Ever since, I have been keeping an engineering notebook by jotting down new lessons. The main things I found were: - Attention is cheap. The amount of attention we devote to ‘learning’ is not directly proportional to the amount we actually learn. - We need to get into the habit of recognizing new information, and capturing them while doing engineering task. Otherwise our everyday learning escapes us. - Being productive does not make us learn more. They are correlated but productivity does not cause learning. In my most productive days, I did not learn more than normal days. I 'measured' learning by looking at the number of notes I took per day in that month. In short, I found that I was not learning as much as I thought because I did not pay attention to capturing new information. Therefore the most important thing for an engineering notebook is a way of instantly capturing new information without effort. [0] - https://dnote.io/blog/writing-everything-i-learn-coding-for-a-month/ https://dnote.io/blog/writing-everything-i-learn-coding-for-...