How To Learn Stuff Quickly • Josh W. Comeau

A collection of other websites and things I recommend checking out.

# EMBRACE FAILURE KEEP MAKING Ⅱ - Learn how to learn # Nobody learns (effectively) by being shown what to do. You can watch hundreds of hours of people playing guitar, even explaining how they do it, but you won’t be able to randomly pick one up and play if you never have before. Furthermore, as much as you can learn from direct reading and instruction, it has its place and limits. This guide, book, whatever you want to call it, was never meant to be followed like instructions. You should go out on your own and poke around, get lost in the weeds as you go. If you find a topic dull, don’t read it as in depth. I don’t want you wasting your time.

Weekly summarization and review of things I've learned in the first week of November 2021

The one with the hedgehog babies 🦔 🦔

Sometimes I read a piece of writing that has me thinking for days or weeks. It's silly to keep all of that good stuff with me and only me, so I decided to start documenting it for others who may be interested. Position on this list serves no relation to the writing's worth, it's purely chronological. 🌟'd links are articles I highly recommended reading. 2025 🌟 WhatsApp Uncles vs. Wisdom Aunties Working With LLMs: A Few Lessons It's a Torturous Chaos Until It Isn't Rolling the Ladder Up Behind…