Ask HN: What's your process for learning?
For books, you have to generally read them like 5 times. The first pass might take me like an hour, it's mostly to establish a general mental framework for what's in the book (actually try to read the table of content, and like familiarize yourself with the words you might not know). On the second pass, you will actually try to read the book and retain like 20% of what you read. On the next one try the next 30%.<p>This approach has the advantage that it lets you decide what's important. I also like to believe that it establishes better connections between the single ideas.<p>I would say that goals are counterproductive until you are somewhat comfortable but not when starting out. Like yeah sure, you should make some progress but you are in an uncharted territory, the best thing you can do is to walk around a bit and make sure you stay engaged.<p>If you move to a new city, you probably walk around the neighborhood for a bit, then to the neighborhood next to yours etc etc.