[jprobitaille]

I have the same problem! How do you deal with it? Whenever I'm exposed to a new thing I want to learn, I ask if it's something I can and will apply relatively immediately, or something I'd learn only to incorporate it into my 'zombie plan' (or any other unlikely contingency). If it's for the far off future, I stick a pin in it and come back if the urge becomes more than a whim.

Also, I try to limit the time I spend ingesting info (discounting recreation) to about 20% of the time I spend creating.

[brentr]

I had this same problem for quite a while. I had force my mind to accept that I probably didn't pick up everything the first time around. I didn't let that stop me in my tracks. I simply went onto the next thing. Eventually, something would come up, usually a compiler error, that would force me to flip back to some section I have previously read. I would find out what was causing the error and fix it. I have stopped trying to learn it all, and instead I read once and then reread only what history has pointed out I failed to pick up on the first round.