It’s Okay to “Forget” What You Read
Eh, you still forget 90% of everything you ever read, or just plain learn, and that includes the models you get from reading books about the crusade.<p>If you want to retain anything in more than vague details, you need to intensively practice and study.<p>That is not to say you should practice and study everything in intense details. There's only so many hours to practice being a world class programmer and then something else.<p>It's fine to be an average driver, an average cook, average almost anything.<p>But if you want anymore than an average result, you're going to need to invest more than average effort.