Learn a technology from its original sources first
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if ever I was learning a new programming language or something like that, I would always go back – And by the – I would try to find the original books of whatever that thing is, like C.
Episode 269: Verbal Pollution (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:41:30 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Summary
Tech companies hand you solutions that ratchet down what people know and leave them dependent. To avoid that, when Dave learned a new language he went back to the original books, like K&R for C or Sun's original Java docs, learned the base level, and moved forward through history. Without the foundations you're driven by whatever the latest feature sprint is, never understanding why things are the way they are.
Not in the audio. The 'technosolutionism... ratchets the knowledge base down' lead-in is partly in Unknown-labeled cues.