Join a Reading Group
Reading groups look through patterns or other literature to learn as a group. There may be a reading group near where you live or work. Join it and start learning with others. You'll meet like-minded people who can also learn from you and your experiences.
You can find the patterns to study in such a group in many places. Patterns have appeared in many, many books and magazines over the past decades. The Hillside Group (www.hillside.net) can help with its listing of books.
Journals such as IEEE Computer, IEEE Software, and The Communications of the ACM all have had special issues devoted to patterns. There is also the peer-reviewed journal LNCS Transactions on Pattern Languages of Programming; more information is available at www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2-470309-0. Any of these can provide your reading group articles to study.
If you can't find an existing group, you can start your own by using the suggestions at www.industriallogic.com/papers/khdraft.pdf.
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