My playful engineering knowledge acquisition stragegy
vutran | Sept. 26, 2020, 4:54 p.m.
Bootstrapping
1. Get an overview of the landscape to know the unknowns
2. Set a playful goal, with clear success criteria
3. Filter the learning resources by 80/20 rule using the goal as direction
Repeat these steps iterations
4. Learn enough to get started
5. Tinkering with the newly acquired knowledge
6. Share / teach what learned
7. Aim higher
— Be Better, to be updated 6-weekly
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