If all the procrastinator had left to do was to sharpen some pencils, no force on earth could get him do it. However, the procrastinator can be motivated to do difficult, timely and important tasks, as long as these tasks are a way of not doing something more important.
John Perry • Structured Procrastination
On the other hand, preliminary learning is quite bad for learning tools but is the only way of learning concepts .
On-demand learning is ruining the tech industry.
But of course, what’s great in theory breaks down in practice.