My learning strategy involves three steps: consume, produce, and engage. Though they are self-explanatory, let me explain how I practice these. When I decide t

My learning strategy involves three steps: consume, produce, and engage. Though they are self-explanatory, let me explain how I practice these. When I decide to learn something new, I look for the best articles, books, videos on the topic. Google helps me out here. I devour them as quickly as I can. Consuming gives you the illusion of understanding. I make those concepts my own by producing something. A blog post, a slide deck, an illustration helps me to contextualize what I learned. Consuming and producing is like four blind men trying to grasp what an elephant is. Each has his model of the elephant, which is not a comprehensive picture. I share whatever I produced with others and seek their feedback. I triangulate my opinion. With the comments given by others, I can make a complete picture, at least closer to it. I go deeper into this in a series of articles here: https://jjude.com/sdl/ https://jjude.com/sdl/