I'm sorry to tickle your confirmation bias, but that's absolute nonsense. You can waste a lot of time learning the wrong things or learning the wrong way. I re

I'm sorry to tickle your confirmation bias, but that's absolute nonsense. You can waste a lot of time learning the wrong things or learning the wrong way. I remember learning assembly, Basic, Pascal, Modula, C... in the late 80s and early 90s, from childhood to college, and how many stupid long hours I wasted just for not having the right resource available anywhere, and having nobody to ask (before Uni). Spending days, weeks clueless simply because a certain book wasn't available or, later, because I couldn't get internet access to look stuff up at will. One gets the wrong assumption that since Google and Wikipedia times everything is easily searchable and personal expert advice is obsolete. It's not. There's an excess of worthless content, even wrong/misleading content, and there are also many questions that Google cannot effectively answer. Wasting time hitting dead ends is VERY costly. It takes away time and energy, might end up with you having wrong or worse-than-otherwise conclusions.