Software team members will often talk about learning on the job, for instance, when we're being asked to implement a new technology or new version of an existing technology. This is probably the main part of how we learn. There is also social learning aspect, where we learn from groups, sometimes within our organization, sometimes by joining external meet-ups.
Finding time to learn can be difficult, especially when we have our minds set on solving one particular problem. Putting that problem down so we can pick up something else is mentally taxing; context switching is shown to have a 20-30% impact on our time. This, in turn, has an impact on our already drained cognitive resources. So it's not surprising that, ...
