My approach to learn a new topic besides reading can be summed up with this statement “Embed yourself in a community of practice”
If i want to learn about a topic, i just go where most of its experts hangout, even if i feel like an outsiders! I have a thick skin and not a lot of pride when trying to learn. I also embed myself in the online community of practice through Twitter and Quora. I create a twitter list of all experts or relevant people in field and when they share an opinion or an article it will be the most relevant to the topic. It is like hiring a personal curator from the industry:) Same for Quora, nothing compares to humans from industry giving personal answers. Both tools made a huge difference with my learning on new topics like: Angel Investments, Creative Spaces, Fintech, Audio Book Publishing, Digital Transformation…
We suffer from an overload of information and articles are mostly written for clicks….that is one of my ways of sifting through the noise.