What granularity of time are you talking about? When you “never maintain 1 and 2 at the same time”, is that any given minute, or any given decade? For me, “background learning” includes #1 and #3, and for a given quarter I’m usually 25-75 between learning and doing, but the ratio reverses for some periods when I don’t know how to approach a project or what project I might want to do next. On the timeframe of weeks, I might be 100% on one of these, but on the timeframe of months, I _always_ have some project/build/do time and some research/explore time.
I try to never “grind” through a book. Most books are simply not that necessary, and those that are, I can usually get 80% of the value by skimming most of it. I do grind through papers sometimes, and I do grind through a chapter sometimes, but in both cases only after a bit of consideration about what I’m likely to get out of it.
What granularity of time are you talking about? When you “never maintain 1 and 2 at the same time”, is that any given minute, or any given decade? For me, “background learning” includes #1 and #3, and for a given quarter I’m usually 25-75 between learning and doing, but the ratio reverses for some periods when I don’t know how to approach a project or what project I might want to do next. On the timeframe of weeks, I might be 100% on one of these, but on the timeframe of months, I _always_ have some project/build/do time and some research/explore time.
I try to never “grind” through a book. Most books are simply not that necessary, and those that are, I can usually get 80% of the value by skimming most of it. I do grind through papers sometimes, and I do grind through a chapter sometimes, but in both cases only after a bit of consideration about what I’m likely to get out of it.
I would say every couple months is an opportunity to either pivot or continue.