I would rather understand the basics really well than memorize all kinds of complicated concepts I can’t stitch together and can’t rederive from the basics. If you can’t rederive concepts from the basics as you need them, you’re lost. You’re just memorizing. ((NAVAL RAVIKANT))
Talks I do like
On math, monoids, algebra and how it relates to codingAre you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so-called “powerful” programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than to the problem set? EDSGER W. DIJKSTRA