How do I learn new skills fast?
Build something with the skill immediately. Learning by building beats learning by studying. The feedback from building is faster and more honest.
Most people learn backwards. They study, plan, prepare, and then maybe build something. Flip it. Build first. Study to solve the problems you encounter while building.
"You will learn more from building something absolutely awful than reading another 10,000 tweets about how to build things." The awful thing teaches you what doesn't work. The tweets teach you what someone else thinks works.
The fastest learning loop: build, ship, get feedback, iterate. Each cycle takes days, not months. In a year of weekly cycles, you've iterated 52 times. The person who studied for a year has iterated zero times.
Publish the learning process. Building in public compounds the learning — you get feedback from others AND you reinforce your own understanding by explaining it.
“How to get really good at anything: 1. Do it badly. 2. Iterate.”
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