<story><title>An Easy Way to Learn Hard Stuff</title><url>https://medium.com/learning-new-stuff/a-simple-technique-to-learn-hard-stuff-ffaa7879bf7c#.lubnbmj5y</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jgh</author><text>I like this technique, only thing I&amp;#x27;ll really disagree with is the usage of videos.  I really hate videos as a medium for learning computer-related stuff.  Just write down your explanation, maybe throw some images or gists in there, so I can go back without having to guess how far to go back if I need to.&lt;p&gt;Or if it&amp;#x27;s a &amp;quot;how-to&amp;quot; just make it a list. For example, I was trying to figure out how to do something in Windows the other day and all I could find were Youtube videos.  Now I have to sit through someone&amp;#x27;s excessive intro for their channel with 382 subscribers and wait for them to get to the point.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eterm</author><text>It depends on the video. Some video courses are truly excellent (Shout out to &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;egghead.io&amp;#x2F;series&amp;#x2F;getting-started-with-redux&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;egghead.io&amp;#x2F;series&amp;#x2F;getting-started-with-redux&lt;/a&gt; ), others are close to useless (so many &amp;quot;intermediate&amp;#x2F;advanced&amp;quot; pluralsight courses where the first 30m-1hr is installing visual studio!)</text></comment>
<story><title>An Easy Way to Learn Hard Stuff</title><url>https://medium.com/learning-new-stuff/a-simple-technique-to-learn-hard-stuff-ffaa7879bf7c#.lubnbmj5y</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jgh</author><text>I like this technique, only thing I&amp;#x27;ll really disagree with is the usage of videos.  I really hate videos as a medium for learning computer-related stuff.  Just write down your explanation, maybe throw some images or gists in there, so I can go back without having to guess how far to go back if I need to.&lt;p&gt;Or if it&amp;#x27;s a &amp;quot;how-to&amp;quot; just make it a list. For example, I was trying to figure out how to do something in Windows the other day and all I could find were Youtube videos.  Now I have to sit through someone&amp;#x27;s excessive intro for their channel with 382 subscribers and wait for them to get to the point.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrborgen</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s a valid point. I guess this comes down to personal preferences.&lt;p&gt;I do use articles too, but I normally start out with videos. If it&amp;#x27;s too slow, YouTube fortunately has got the 1.5x speed option :)</text></comment>