This is for tech skills -- my learning strategy differs greatly for other types of skills. > So, what is your learning strategy? How do you plan your time to l

This is for tech skills -- my learning strategy differs greatly for other types of skills. > So, what is your learning strategy? How do you plan your time to learn something new? How do you pick a subject or tool to learn? To the last 2 questions: I don't really. But to the first question: I read widely, but I also add an accelerant to the process -- Pluralsight. (or, insert your favorite screencast/tech pedagogy site here) Pluralsight has videos that are of high pedagogical quality -- low or variable quality sites are a waste of time -- because instructors are curated (and I hear, auditioned). Sometimes I just want to see how something is done by an expert. I hate to admit it but I'm partial to learning by mimicry (at least at first). Docs are good as a reference, but it's tedious and slow to mentally parse step-by-step instructions and scaffolding code in docs -- there's just too much context switching for my liking. Much easier to watch a video at 1.5x speed, where someone is doing it and explaining at the same time. For instance, I tried learning K8S by reading blogs and docs but didn't really see how everything fit together until I watched some videos of an expert actually explaining and assembling stuff starting from zilch all the way to a working setup. Downside: these sites only cover established technologies. If you're learning cutting edge stuff, then they're no help.