Six months ago my "learning list" was 40+ open tabs and a notes app full of dead links. What actually worked was boring and simple:
1. One core topic per month. This quarter it was rendering internals and React Server Components. Everything else had to wait. Saying no to cool-but-unrelated content was the single biggest win.
2. Learn by shipping tiny things. Not another todo app - a debounce hook, a mini virtualizer, an interpreter for a toy language. Small enough to finish on a weekend, real enough to expose what I didn't understand.
3. Curate tools ruthlessly. Half of "learning" used to die in tool evaluation. I started keeping a strict shortlist of tools I had actually vetted in a project, and eventually moved it to a small directory I run (<a href="https://curateclick.com/">CurateClick</a>) so I stop re-Google-ing the same five utilities every few months. If a tool doesn't earn its place in a real project within two weeks, it goes.
4. Review monthly, drop without guilt. A topic I didn't touch in 30 days wasn't a priority, no matter how shiny.
Currently learning: WebGPU basics and deeper testing patterns (contract testing especially). Would love to hear how you all separate signal from noise - and whether your "saved for later" pile is as big as mine was.

What actually stuck from my last 6 months of learning - and the curation habit that helps

There is no right or wrong in this question. But please do have something on your list, show you are a learner, especially something related to the po…