Watch Youtube

The amount of valuable educational knowledge available in well formed video content has exploded over the past 6 or so years. There has been a huge step change, in the quality and volume of educational videos about quite literally anything. You can get more practical knowledge than you could get from an electrical engineering degree by basically watching videos online

The problem with university/highschool class based learning is that you're limited on speed, and you are forced to revert to the mean. You can't go any faster than you'd like, and you can't go where you'd like. You can't go somewhere different.

School was boring. I was so bored, I wanted to blow my brains out. It was a waste of my time. On my free time, I browsed the internet. This was a much better use of my time. I learned things that *I* thought would be useful.

I learned to play the piano, off of youtube videos, over 10 years ago.

My uncle is a electrical engineer. He learned what he knows for his projects himself. I showed him some of the machining videos I watch, where people build engines. He lamented. He wished he had all of this, when he was younger. He said he could have learned what he knows so much faster.

Today and yesterday, I learned how MOSFETs worked. Today, I watched ElectrArc420's video on all the different failure patterns that can occur. I learned about inductance, and how to avoid it.

I talk to him about what I learned, and he corrects me. I don't trust LLMs yet, but eventually, I can.

The volume and quality of science and engineering videos is astounding. I watched a greek guy print a brushless motor PCB. Talk through his motor testing process.

This is all basically free. This information, this knowledge, it's from the people who actually do these things. Its from people who do new things. It's available as soon as the thing is a thing. GANfet videos are being published in the past year. From people who take these things apart out of power supplies, and actually test them and figure out their quirks in practice.

I'm constantly learning.

I just watch youtube and read a lot