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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

858: How to Go Deeper With Your Learning

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Js, Technology, Css, Html5, Tech News, Webdevelopment, News, Javascript, Html

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Want to level up your web dev game? Scott and Wes share their top tips for going deeper with your learning—covering everything from reading the docs and source code to finding mentorship and engaging with the community.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Syntax on this Monday Hasty Treat.

0:04.4

We're going to be talking about how to go deeper with your knowledge.

0:08.3

You know, we all pick up surface level skills.

0:10.6

We even pick up like medium level skills.

0:12.8

But how do you really get that fine-tuned deep knowledge on a subject?

0:17.6

Well, we're going to be talking about all that and more today.

0:19.6

My name is Scott Tolensky.

0:20.6

I'm a developer from Denver. With me, as always, is West Boss. Hey, what's up?

0:25.7

Excited to go deep today on learning. Yes, me too. You know what? For somebody like me, it's a little

0:34.0

tough at times to go really deep on a subject.

0:39.1

I like a lot of things, right?

0:40.3

I like a lot of different things.

0:47.2

I like to pick up something, explore it, and then move on to the next thing, build something, move on to the next thing.

0:52.2

But there are, I guess, some topics that I have devoted a lot of time to, right?

0:54.8

And I don't know if it's just like part of my personality that makes it tough for me to do that. But are you able to really, I know you're, you're such a guy

0:59.9

who really kind of goes deep on a subject from the jump, right? Yeah, it's almost a like a bad thing,

1:09.3

because I'll often find myself being, for example I was trying out a new

1:15.2

window management app called aerospace yes and and I put like five six hours into it and the next thing

1:23.7

you know I'm I'm submitting a pull request in Swift to the thing. And I'm like, man,

1:28.4

like, I wish I could just use the thing and be okay with it. But like, I go down these rabbit

1:36.0

holes and almost always it ends up with me correcting the docs or sending a pull request.

1:40.9

And I think, oh, man, I shouldn't be spending this much time on this thing.

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