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Consume ➡️ Build ➡️ Teach
How to learn something for realz
Kent C. Dodds
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if you are able ❤️ ♿️
What this talk is
- My personal experiences
- Things I messed up
- Things I got right
- How I recommend learning
- Based on a previous talk: kcd.im/0to60
Let's
Get
STARTED!
Consume
Reading
Consume Curated Content
Learn from others
- Water-cooler chats
- Discord/Slack/etc.
- Open Source
- Stack Overflow
- Meetups
- Conferences
Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way.
- George Evans
Build
to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.
-Stephen R. Covey
SpendMyCents.com
InfiniteWPM
Filtered List
Why is "x" so...
If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
-Grace Hopper
While persistence offers no guarantees, it does give 'luck' a chance to operate.
- Tom Shippey
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
-Thomas A. Edison
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
- Coco Chanel
Teach
Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.
-Aristotle
Intro to AngularJS
How I got into Egghead
Teaching is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your understanding is.
-Ashley G. Williams
- Open Source
- Blog
- Screencast
- Speaking at Meetups/Conferences
- Answer StackOverflow
- Help people on Discord/Slack
- Help in issues on a repo
Teaching Ideas
KCD Learning Clubs
Don't be afraid to try
You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
- Wayne Gretzky
Smart Hard Worker
Hard Worker Nice
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- John Jesse
Make the world a better place
Resources
- kcd.im/cbt - These slides
- kcd.im/discord - The KCD Community on Discord
- kcd.im/clubs - KCD Learning Clubs
- kcd.im/pull-request - Egghead.io series
- kcd.im/write-oss - Egghead.io series
- kcd.im/tech-chats - YouTube Playlist of interesting chats
- kcd.im/devtips - Weekdaily screencasts from me
- kcd.im/talks - List of my talks
- confs.tech - List of tech conferences
- meetup.com - Find a meetup
Thank you!
Consume ➡️ Build ➡️ Teach
By Kent C. Dodds
Consume ➡️ Build ➡️ Teach
How do you level up? How do you jumpstart your learning when getting into something new? Nobody has more than 24 hours a day, so how do you maximize the impact of your limited time? In this keynote, I'm going to tell you a bit of my own story, and some tips and tricks that I've learned so you can be as productive as you can be at learning new things and solidifying that knowledge so it's there when you need it.
