How to Learn

I love to learn.  I love to consume new ways to stay ahead and challenge my thought.  I thought I would share with you a few ways I do this:

• If I find a term or subject that I want to dive into, I will write it down in the personal ToDo section of my Moleskine
• I use Wikipedia to look up the term/subject to gain an overview of what it is
• Sometimes if I want to learn what people are discussing on the topic, I'll set up a Bloglines search to capture blog postings that contain the word (example, if you do this for "podcasting", you'll get over 200 entries per hour...overload!)
• If I'm really interested in learning more, I'll subscribe to blogs that specialize on the subject or have great things to say
• Sometimes I'll email the blog author and leave comments on their blogs and get engaged in the conversation
• Another great way to gain further insight is to subscribe to a podcast on the subject.  I really like the iPodder client to capture the .mp3 feeds

Good luck and never stop learning!

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tags: podcasting | bloglines | learning | moleskine

Comments

[Andreas]

Same here. That is why my book consumption is also high. The challenge is - how to keep up with all the new stuff, and also have the memory to be able to talk about it "reasonably" when required.

[K. Todd Storch]

Very good point. I didn't even include that this "learning" helps you get less and less sleep!

My "To Be Read" stack is getting too large!

Todd