I'm a depth-first learner. I prefer to have the time and focus to learn as much as possible about a new area, as deeply as possible, and in one "chunk". Obviou

I'm a depth-first learner. I prefer to have the time and focus to learn as much as possible about a new area, as deeply as possible, and in one "chunk". Obviously sometimes that isn't well-supported by my immediate needs. In those cases I tend to be incremental - I work on the problem that I need to solve until I run into a roadblock. I solve that roadblock and continue until the next one. This approach makes it more difficult to estimate "time to completion", but it's proven to be most efficient for me so far.