Hey, for those of you who are leaning towards the "push" style, what helped me most when learning something new "by the book" is then to try to teach it to somebody :-)

I am a regular employee with fairly well defined role in the team, which means that new problems to crack an learn from don't come that often.

On the other hand, we have knowledge-shares, lunch-n-learns, tech-talks, lightning-talks and even cooperate with local universities to teach some course-work :-)