I had the great opportunity to speak at this year’s NDC Oslo to share my ideas of how we can improve our continuous learning. A topic I find most important, not just for software developers, but for all knowledge workers. You can find the slides of my talk at Speaker Deck:
The recording of my talk is now available on YouTube:
If you remember only one thing, make it this one:
Sleep more! Your brain needs rest to learn new things.
Following the idea of “one input, multiple outputs”, I blogged about many of the points I made in my talk. If you want to know more, you can find them here:
- What You May Have Gotten Wrong About the 10,000 Hours Rule
- Cutting down Your Time to Learn: The First 20 Hours
- One Input, Multiple Outputs – How You Can Leverage Your Work for Continuous Learning
- Architecture Decision Records: The Fastest Way to Document Your Application
- Define Your Technology Stack
- Conference Videos: A Widely Underused Learning Opportunity
- Keyboard Shortcuts for Visual Studio
- Combining PDF Files Swiftly with PDFsharp
- Blog for Yourself to Persist Your Knowledge
- More Opportunities to Use Your Daily Work for Continuous Learning
- Don’t Cut Sleep – Especially Not When You Want to Learn Something New
I learned a lot while preparing and hope you can use it for your journey to learn new things.
Update 3.09.2018: Add links to the recording of my talk and to posts about the topic posted since presenting it in Oslo.
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