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For me its a mix of both. Im very much a proponent of the "fail faster" prototyping approach that I learned from game design books. But when I do fail, I usually look up why exactly and that way I learn about all the things I dont need right now and that dont work as I expected them, but might need in the future and now they are in my head catalogue of options
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How many of you feel you learn something on the job?
As for myself, I learn much more from books than sitting day in, day out at work, doing more or less of the same things.
To me, this whole trial-and-error way of 'learning' is not really learning. I don't subscribe to this dogma. I don't 'learn' by messing up and fixing something. I need a full specification of why something works, when and how. I'm not satisfied by just being a code plumber.
This, next to the fact that most jobs in small startups don't provide a budget for you to expand your knowledge.
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