Use Super Simple Starts to learn new things - a podcast by Kent C. Dodds

Hey friends So some of you may be familiar with my super simple start
series of blog posts. I've got like six or seven of those and basically the
idea is let's strip down everything else outside of the thing that we're
trying to focus on and just bring in the abstractions or tools that are100% necessary for whatever whatever it is we're learning and that means if
we're talking about CSS variables or custom properties, that means we're
not bringing in Webpack or any of that nonsense, it's all just index HTML
and then style sheets and stuff.And we're talking about react same story. We get rid of the build tools
just get rid of all of that stuff and see how minimal we can make somethingwork just kind of the hello world of this. We we don't care about whether
this solution scales or anything and the idea is if we can separate thespecific thing that we're trying to learn from all the extra things you
need around it to make something practical you'll understand a lot more
what the the role of that thing that you're trying to learn is.
And so,It just has helped me enormously where with regard to working withnode modules like native ES modules or even the native ES modules in the
browser. And so this is something an approach that I take when I'm trying
to learn something new or maybe when I'm trying to introduce something new
to somebody as I try to just pair it down as much as I possibly can toremove all of the noise and just focus on what we're trying to actually
learn and it's been really effective and so I wanted to share that with you
as an.Idea if there's something that you're trying to learn and you want to just
really get a solid grasp or understanding of a specific technology orwhatever then try to make a super simple start to whatever it is that
you're trying to learn. And I think that you'll find it's surprisingly easy
to do typically or it's a lot easier because you can just ignore a ton of
other things that we always have to think about when we're building real
apps.And then it also helps a great deal and actually being useful. So anyway, I
hopeThat's helpful and I hope you have a wonderful day.

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