I tell myself to not adhd it and instead take time and read through a whole manual, experiment in a local sandbox, grasp the limits of knowledge and features and also where it gets deep.
Then in a regular work I explicitly detect where it pays off and feel “see I told you”. This creates a motivational loop to continue not-adhd-ing through tech.
Sometimes I still fly over the knowledge, but then may note that what I’ve been doing in a complex way could be solved with one parameter, if only I knew about it. This creates negative feedback against flying over.
This is ofc only one facet of learning, but I find this “see I told you” method very effective, cause my main issue with learning is unwillingness to learn for no clear reason.
My issue with this method of learning is… deadlines. During work time, I often feel that I need to solve something “quick”, which then leads me to usually learn and really deep dive outside of regular work hours instead.
Now, I mostly actually enjoy doing this and thus it has not really limited me. But I wish I could just spend some actual work time on more ‘non adhd-ing’ what I learn.
Yeah, deadlines suck. Historically I managed to "manage the management" into a reasonable rush/cook balance most of the time, which allows for healthy exploration, but that is absolutely "ymmw" thing.
I love the manual method and occasionally used it. Basically assuming there is no Internet, just a book and a repo of source code and try to figure out how to do something.
Sadly I'm now so easily burnout that even setting a dev env up can burn me out.
Then in a regular work I explicitly detect where it pays off and feel “see I told you”. This creates a motivational loop to continue not-adhd-ing through tech.
Sometimes I still fly over the knowledge, but then may note that what I’ve been doing in a complex way could be solved with one parameter, if only I knew about it. This creates negative feedback against flying over.
This is ofc only one facet of learning, but I find this “see I told you” method very effective, cause my main issue with learning is unwillingness to learn for no clear reason.