--- title: How To Learn Stuff Quickly | daily.dev description: There are two categories of learning: guided and unguided. If you only follow guided resources, you'll wind up in tutorial hell. Mixing unguided learning into... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-learn-stuff-quickly-rze6ripbq twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How To Learn Stuff Quickly | daily.dev og:description: There are two categories of learning: guided and unguided. If you only follow guided resources, you'll wind up in tutorial hell. Mixing unguided learning into... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-learn-stuff-quickly-rze6ripbq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/rzE6RipBq.png og:image:alt: How To Learn Stuff Quickly og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How To Learn Stuff Quickly **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 12 min read · 62 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary There are two categories of learning: guided and unguided. If you only follow guided resources, you'll wind up in tutorial hell. Mixing unguided learning into guided resources can help you learn more effectively. The tutorial fade is useful because it forces you to pay attention and build the thing over and over. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@asikurrahman** · 0 upvotes > Very well said. Thanks for sharing. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-unveils-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-ikhcoa5cb) · CNCF · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Debuts KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-debuts-kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-schedule-xp5pyudub) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#career](https://daily.dev/tags/career), [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-learn-stuff-quickly-rze6ripbq) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"How To Learn Stuff Quickly","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-learn-stuff-quickly-rze6ripbq","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-learn-stuff-quickly-rze6ripbq"},"datePublished":"2021-07-20T04:52:04.365Z","dateModified":"2024-08-30T02:25:08.875Z","description":"There are two categories of learning: guided and unguided. 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