Ask HN: I just got my first job and I need to learn faster and better
A little background: Self-taught web developer, hired to work with both frontend and backend code. This is my first software development job.
My problem is, I'm slow to pick the technologies needed to start working on JIRA tickets. I'm working together with another junior developer (also self-taught, started same day with me) but I'm just stuck eating his dust. I decided to put egos aside and ask him for help and the only thing I got was generic advice, which I already do (read the docs, understand what you read, try building their tutorials/getting started section, read more code, trial and error).
Either I'm inherently slow and it's time to accept the natural limits of my brain or there's a better method that would work for me and I'm missing it.
My problem is, I'm slow to pick the technologies needed to start working on JIRA tickets. I'm working together with another junior developer (also self-taught, started same day with me) but I'm just stuck eating his dust. I decided to put egos aside and ask him for help and the only thing I got was generic advice, which I already do (read the docs, understand what you read, try building their tutorials/getting started section, read more code, trial and error).
Either I'm inherently slow and it's time to accept the natural limits of my brain or there's a better method that would work for me and I'm missing it.