Tutorial Hell

Trust me, I know what tutorial hell is.

I’ve been passing through there. I didn’t have the balls or the self-esteem to start a project on my own.

Believe me when I tell you I have 4 pages on Udemy with 12 courses in each of them.

And you know what? I have just completed 9 of them, barely 25%.

Even though I know this, it doesn’t stop me from anxiously buying the next one.

The loop is something like this:

1.⁠ ⁠I read or watch something about an interesting technology

2.⁠ ⁠I realize I know shit about it

3.⁠ ⁠It looks amazing, like the future

4.⁠ ⁠Anxiety kicks in

5.⁠ ⁠Go ahead to Udemy and buy a 30H course about it

6.⁠ ⁠Never ever open the course

Well, at least they just cost 10 bucks. What else should I think?

But you know when I learn the most?

Opening my Visual Studio Code and going straight into that new technology.

Then hitting my head over and over against the wall of bugs, internet, docs, and any AI chat that doesn’t get tired of me.

Trying to develop any crazy or dumb idea.

And it was there, and only there, that I truly started to understand and retain the knowledge.

Of course, courses can be really helpful, but they might not be the key to pushing you into real knowledge.