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Very interesting article, Eric!

I like the idea of approaching learning with an intent.

At first, I approached reading like in school: I'm reading this book because someone (the teacher, some authority on YouTube...) said so.

Then I started doing a pre-read of the table of contents at Amazon before getting the book and putting down some questions I wanted to be answered at the end of the reading.

This helped with the just-in-time learning too. When the pre-read didn't spark any interest it meant the moment was not right.

Something very similar happened to me with AWS. I tried some internal training in my onboarding to my job just out of university. None of the service's names stuck, and none of the explanations made sense because I had a low level of distributed systems.

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