Presented at WordCamp Denver 2015 (#wcdenver). Building skills isn't something that happens by accident. It happens by deliberate and intentional focus.

1. Learn Something
Every Day.

3. Education is not
a destination.
It’s a journey.
N O O N E “ F I N I S H E S ” L E A R N I N G .

4. You must make time
to learn. Every day.
I T D O E S N ’ T H A P P E N B Y A C C I D E N T .

5. Most times you don’t know
what you should learn.
N O R W H A T I N F O R M A T I O N
M A Y B E C O M E U S E F U L .

6. Knowledge without
application
leads to atrophy.
Y O U N E E D P R A C T I C E .

7. Whenever you’re
learning or growing
rest is best.
Y O U N E E D T O T A K E B R E A K S .

8. Knowledge isn’t transferred
in a vacuum.
S O D O N ’ T E X P E C T T O G R O W
C O M P L E T E L Y O N Y O U R O W N .

9. There is no
right way
to learn.
D O W H A T W O R K S F O R Y O U .

10. — C O R Y M I L L E R
@ C O R Y M I L L E R 3 0 3
I eat books. If I’m not learning, I’m dying … and
reading books in particular (along with blogs) is the
best way to learn new stuff.
I post my reading list here:
http://corymiller.com/reading/

11. — M I C H E L L E S C H U L P
@ M A R K T I M E M E D I A
I have a core library of actual books that cover a lot
of the high level education. Outside of that I’ll
typically turn to a combination of Google and
People I Know™ to find answers.

12. — C H R I S L E M A
@ C H R I S L E M A
The first thing I do is try to do things on my own
without any instruction whatsoever. I do this on
purpose to fail [...] from there, I move to online
resources where people write tutorials. I’m able to
better understand them because they’re showing
me where my ways were wrong, and what I didn’t
understand (contextually) the first time.

13. — M I K A E P S T E I N
@ I P S T E N U
I usually learn something new out of necessity. I
need to do something, I can’t, I learn. I’m very
haptic, though, so I learn by doing and breaking
and blowing up. I call it the Ms. Frizzle style
of learning...

14. — J U S T I N S T E R N B E R G
@ J T S T E R N B E R G
Usually I keep a log of things I want to learn and
as resources float in front of me [...] I bookmark
them so that when I get a chunk of time to research
and learn a new thing, I have a backlog of
resources to pull from.

15. — B R A D W I L L I A M S
@ W I L L I A M S B A
Believe it or not, I consult my Professional
WordPress books [...]. When I first started
WordPress development I frequently hung out in
the #wordpress IRC channel on freenode. Over time
I went from asking questions to answering them.
It was a great way to learn.

16. We learn most by
teaching others.
W I T H L E A R N I N G , T H E R E
I S O N E U N I V E R S A L T R U T H :

17. What should
you learn next?
Tools Language Domain Yourself• • •

18. R E S O U R C E S
Clean Code
Robert C. Martin
Delivering
Happiness
Tony Hsieh
Elements of
Great Managing
Rodd Wagner
The Way
We’re Working
Isn’t Working
Tony Schwartz
The Millionaire
Next Door
Thomas J Stanley
William D Danko
Data Model
Patterns
David C. Hay

19. R E S O U R C E S
W P S E S S I O N S . C O M / S E S S I O N S

20. W P S E S S I O N S . C O M / B L O G

21. R E S O U R C E S
T U T S P L U S . C O M
Building a Web App From
Scratch with AngularJS
Up and Running with
Regular Expressions
Pro Screencasting For
The Rest of Us

22. R E S O U R C E S
PostStatus.com/club
Amazing Community!
Daily Notes!

23. R E S O U R C E S
WPTavern.comAlways current. Solid Commentary.

24. R E S O U R C E S
twitter.com/rzen/following/
Incredible people sharing good stuff!

25. Thank You
G O L E A R N S O M E T H I N G U S E F U L !