One thing this piece highlights for me is the importance of really learning the language you're coding in or the system you're operating. Many take the very pr

One thing this piece highlights for me is the importance of really learning the language you're coding in or the system you're operating. Many take the very practical approach of learning what is needed and no more, using google, SO, and API docs in a web browser to shore up what is missing. Unfortunately, searching for and then reading something written by a new stranger every 5 minutes is a severe disruption to a focused workflow. For me, this means learning advanced language features ahead of time (light bedtime reading by Josh Bloch, for example) and keeping a browser open with nothing open except a local copy of the API docs. Another example would be finding one good (physical) book to use as a language reference and keeping it next to the computer.