Fast Learning

Getting back into web development which is kind of fun and typically I've mainly read blogs or books.

However lately I've been using videos which works better due to the graphical nature of web development. And videos also shows the thought process for building out an app which is quicker to comprehend via speech than text.

What I now do is find a video I'm interested in and change the speed to 1.5x playback (shortcut:  Shift + '.' key).

I watch the video in it's entirety (or a good bit of it) to get an understanding of what's happening without jumping back/forth too much and context switching to understand the "forest" level.

And then I rewind to start over and apply it myself to get hands on experience and understand it at the "tree" level.

Give this a shot if you're learning something new and hopefully it helps you out!