Learning works best by cycling through four stages: Learn, Experiment, Build, Teach. Deep reading and building projects require patience and create real understanding, while experimenting and teaching move fast. Doomscrolling shallow articles keeps you stuck in one dimension and kills retention.
Make your studying interdimensional or deep. When I talk about my learning framework, which is called Learn, Experiment, Build, Teach, I talk about the parts that are fast and the parts that are slow. And I sometimes get the feedback that, you know, why not read these short articles and get more knowledge and stuff, like, just sort of jammed into my brain? Basically sort of a defense of doomscrolling. And what I find is that doomscrolling is linear, right? It is also very, very short, and that means it doesn't have a lot of dimensionality and also doesn't have that much depth because all these things are relatively short. I think the same thing is true even by getting up into medium-sized blog posts or what have you. That's why I talk about reading books, because you can exercise that muscle and that patience in order to be gathering information at the learn phase. When I talk about experimentation, right, that's the fast one. That's going to be where you want to get multiple dimensions of knowledge into you through having more tactile experience and doing more than just the linear word.
