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Re:Ask HN: What is your number one tip for learning new things? by yesenadam on Friday December 21, 2018 @07:40PM (#18738059)
Let's say I want to learn graphic design. (Apologies to InGodsName)

I'd start by googling best graphic design books for lists, then download books that sounded amazing and/or appeared on a lot of lists, from libgen.io. (Other subjects can involve older books from archive.org, or scientific papers from libgen or google scholar) Learn from the best.

Re:Ask HN: What is your number one tip for learning new things? by tmaly on Friday December 28, 2018 @10:26AM (#18777231)
Have you ever read the book Thinking as a Science by any chance? The first part of your method is what this book recommends