Just bashing your head against the keyboard to make things work will take you way farther than just following a tutorials
becoz by doing you are actually building stuff and not just copying code
That process of searching things up is actual learning progress
Just bashing your head against the keyboard to make things work will take you way farther than just following a tutorials
becoz by doing you are actually building stuff and not just copying code
That process of searching things up is actual learning progress
How to get super smart in a surprisingly short amount of time.
I don't want to be another creator who just dumps a list of resources.
I'm sharing these so you don't have to comment "link?" or DM me asking where to find something.
Also, I don't want to attract people who spend all day collecting free resources and never actually learn anything.
So let's start.
There are only a few places you really need to get knowledge from:
Substack
Daily dev
The internet (if you know where to look)
The best articles I find usually come from Substack, Daily dev, Hacker News, and similar communities.
You can discover them through Perplexity, ChatGPT, or any search engine.
The key is simple: read every day.
Spend just 10β15 minutes on Substack or Daily dev and you'll constantly discover new ideas, tools, and concepts.
Make it a goal to read at least one article every single day.
This is exactly what I do.
I have my Hermes setup search the web based on topics from my Obsidian vault. It continuously finds useful articles and knowledge related to what I'm currently learning.
The interesting part is that it often pulls me into adjacent fields I wouldn't have explored otherwise.
The second thing I do is give myself a challenge every month: learn something completely new.
It can be anything.
A few months ago I was learning applied LLMs.
Before that I was learning Go.
Before that I spent time exploring Figma.
Every month I pick a new area and go deep on it.
This month I'm learning data science and digging into database internals.
One field. One month. Consistent learning every day.
Over time, your brain gets sharper. You build connections across different domains. You start seeing patterns other people miss.
And that's how you become dangerously smart.
The interesting part is that none of this knowledge stays isolated.
My design taste as a developer comes from spending time learning graphic design.
I was able to launch my YouTube channel quickly and publish well-edited videos because I had already learned video editing before.
My experience with applied AI helps me build internal tools, automate workflows, and think differently about problems.
Every skill compounds.
When you learn across different fields, you start connecting dots that most people don't even see.
You can think from multiple directions.
You can make better trade-offs.
You can spot opportunities faster.
You know what can be automated, delegated, simplified, or removed entirely.
And this doesn't just help with coding.
It helps with business.
It helps with communication.
It helps with decision-making.
It helps with life in general.
Over time, people start thinking you're naturally smart or that you have a higher IQ.
Maybe that's true to some extent.
But most of the time, what looks like intelligence is just years of accumulated knowledge colliding together at the right moment.
It's not gifted intelligence.
It's hard-earned intelligence.