Most people waste time on tweets and product announcements while neglecting deep reading. Real learning requires long-form material that exercises your mind, not quick fixes that feel productive but don't build foundational knowledge.
Read books. When I talk about studying as being the third S of time allocation, I am heavily thinking, right, we are all over-indexed on doing cool short-form stuff and way under-indexed on doing long-form stuff. And, you know, seeing a tweet about a cool product does not count as studying. It puts a little idea into our mind, but it's not really deep. It doesn't exercise the muscles of our mind to make us better than we are. To be tweaking a little, you know, open source project might have some benefit to it. That kind of falls into the X of my, you know, learn, experiment, build, teach framework. But really, there's no substitute for starting with learn. How can you work your intellectual muscles? How can you read and take in things that are harder? When I say reading, there are multiple media by which we can do that. And I think really, when I'm thinking reading, I'm thinking about taking deliberately structured ideas and ingesting them into your brain once they've been laid out in a long-form thesis. When you do that, wow, you can win.
