Keeping Up with Web Performance
summary
Argues for measurable, routine learning: carve a half day for Engine Learning Fridays, run learning guilds and project guilds, and measure outcomes with surveys and demos; lists concrete tools—Lighthouse CI and WebPageTest—plus RUM and synthetic testing for experiments; cites business wins from performance fixes and a user base of seven million teachers as motivation; tracks progress weekly, commits to presentations for accountability, and notes the word “learning” comes up 27 times as proof of emphasis.
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chapters (23)
- 0:00Intro
- 3:14Meet Sharell
- 5:02Agenda
- 7:00Continuous Learning
- 10:01Aspiration
- 12:45Learning
- 13:35Self Awareness
- 14:57Questions
- 16:36Advice
- 18:29Curiosity and Vulnerability
- 20:56Get Comfortable with Vulnerability
- 22:38Build Your Own Learning Practice
- 23:57Learning is Not the Product of Teaching
- 25:13Work at the Edge of Your Abilities
- 26:27Build Your Volcanic Muscles
- 27:28Learning generously
- 27:55Building a learning practice
- 29:01Commit to a date
- 31:01Resources
- 33:01Learning Culture
- 36:32Learning Together
- 38:40Learning Priorities
- 43:56Inclusive Learning Environment
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