Write down unfamiliar terms and look up their meanings ... environment where people have different motivations, different background knowledge, all those sorts of things,” says David B.

If you learn something while roaming through code, or exploring a new tool, write your experiences down. You'll thank yourself later. As far as his write-it-down tool suggestions go, Schanck ...

We are living through extraordinary times. Write it down. Keep a journal. “But,” they complain, “the days are bleeding one into the other and are hardly distinguishable. What should I write?