How To Find Time To Learn After Work | Prime Reacts

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[yannick]

One of the advantages of C++ are the long compile times. That’s easily 2h a day for watching conference talks, read/listen to books, etc. Slow test suites oder CI pipelines are a good common alternative to C++.

[zsytssk]

I think most value thing of yourself is not time, is energy. you can do nothing when you have plenty time but you are tired or exhausted. I think the best way is focus and have good rest.

[Linser]

Trying to learn while multitasking caused an illusion of learning. It took me longer than I’d like to admit to realize this.

[orderandchaos_at_work]

Don't have friends or family or kids.

[hamm]

100% agree about not mixing activities. I love cooking. During covid, I switched from putting on something to listen-to/watch while cooking to just living in the moment and enjoying cooking and it really increase my quality of life immensely. Cooking is very meditative to me, similar to the gym, and so I try to maximize that when I can. (I do put something on while I clean the dishes at the end because I hate that, but during cooking it's just me; my knife; my cutting board; and my pan.)

[russellf]

This guy is heading for burnout. I used to listen to tech podcasts on my commute until I started to not look forward to it. That was the start of my burnout. The burnout led me to meditation and mindfulness and that really helped. I also now enjoy downtime and like Prime, I’m now better at concentrating on one thing at a time whilst making time to not be thinking or just enjoying the current thing.

[Coelophysidae]

Multitasking is scam. You just think you are doing multiple things but in reality your brain just switches between tasks rapidly. In effect you are doing two things at 40% instead on one thing at 100%

[ren-g]

"It's not about learning what you need for work in the moment, it's about learning things in the area you want to be in, the area where you want to be the expert in, where you see yourself for the next 10 years". Thanks @ThePrimeagen for this beautiful pearl.

[delayed_control]

Just listening to learning materials doesn't mean you're learning anything. I'd argue you learn fuck all when you listen to an audiobook in commute, at least in case of STEM subjects (which programming is).

[Jakemottola]

Hey man, I just wanted to say I think you're really good at this shit. You're able to ride this line of being entertaining, sharing knowledge, and then imparting the wisdom you have learned from that knowledge very well. This is a gift, especially on a topic that can be as dry as programming/development. I admire that, and appreciate it, keep it up dude, thank you

[shashantr.]

Totally agree with you on this. With our mindlessly consuming and multitasking nature we are not focusing on things. Lately I've realized that most of the time I'm constantly engaged in something. But when I look back at my day, I realize that most of the time had been spent in context switching between tasks

[TheBswan]

Prime this is your most important video. Your philosophy here is spot on and desperately needed

[daltonyon]

In the past, I used to spend 4~5 hours per day to go and come back to work... this is one of the worst things that I did. Work from home helps a lot to learning new things and JUST DO IT!!! X

[armandoleon]

I spent so much time learning outside of work. I would speed read through books, listen to audio, and listen to podcasts. I got so burnt out that I stopped studying for the last 5 months and began focusing on rest. I realized I still have my job and I’m getting my stuff done at work. I recently began going through 1 book at snail pace but it’s better than piling everything on. I’m not passively reading the book either, I’m doing exercises and plan to do a project when I complete the book. Overall, I’m spending between 15-30min per study sesh every other day. It’s because I spent over 9 years (5 years of school, 4 years of work) grinding and not really enjoying life as much. I had a coworker who had his masters in computer science and at age 27 he was diagnosed with cancer and at 28 he died. I’ve had several friends from college pass before they hit 30 years old, my best friend at 22. Just take some time in your life and do something for yourself that nourishes your soul. Balance it with studying and focus on quality of study instead of passively inhaling content. And I recommended take a break from studying for long periods of time.

[jdubz]

I think the discipline is understanding that you need to control where you get your dopamine hits. Listening to music/side-video/scrolling content/etc are 'easy' dopamine hits that can lead us to avoiding the harder-to-obtain, more satisfying hits. I've certainly been guilty of this (even now) so it's great to have a reminder.

[NerdistRay]

I totally agree with you regarding the constant reliance on consumption being a concerning factor. I used to listen to podcasts, youtube streams, twist streams, music in the background while I was doing menial tasks or even sometimes when I was doing something repetitive but I slowly developed habit of constantly consuming something at any point and I just didn't like how that made me feel. Now I don't listen to anything, and give my head some time to cool off or I listen to my own thoughts. I feel like giving yourself some silence time (no consuming anything) to just listen to your own thoughts is a great way to come up with good ideas and important decisions

[reandov]

I totally agree with you on that Prime... The whole text gave me some sort of a sensation of despair mixed with anxiety (weird isn't?). I also agree 100% with you on the "avoid multitasking complex stuff to be able to enjoy the moment" and this also connects perfectly with focusing into something and getting the most out of it. Imagine listening to a podcast while watching your kids in the park or doing some sort of a special thing, for me that's so sad. I LOVE learning new stuff and getting up to something, to be the best programmer in my team or things like that but I also LOVE having my time to breath, to do something funny with my friends, waste time discussing about nonsense with them or something like that, it makes me feel good :)

[CallousCoder]

What Prime said just to be in silence, is so important! I walk an hour a day (or try to and after my heart is fixed from fibrilating, I go and row and weight lift or swim again for an hour) and that hour has no music, it's just me alone and it's bliss. I used to be a professional musician when I was in high-school especially college and during my first job. And you are around music 2-4 hours a day and it's just nice to hear nothing (except for the tinnitus of being in recording and life sessions for a third of my life :D)

[vincentrouilhac]

I genuinely love listening to your reacts, because your arguments are so accurate I think I need to ear those to point out some flaws I have and it makes me reflect on parts of my life with a different/expressed view

[abyzzwalker]

100% agree with this, I actually think that multitasking is making us dumber and impede us from getting really engaged and concentrated in a task.
I constantly get distracted by notifications or just the urge to get back to my phone asap.