This is exactly what I need. I got an undergraduate education in CS and biochem, and now that I'm employed it felt impossible to devote time or energy to studying electronics. The subject is simply too deep. I was worried the only way I'd ever be able to learn would be to go back to university. This looks like a solution to my problem!
The only thing I worry about is a lack of mathematical rigor, but I suppose as long as I can get hands on experience that amounts to much more than I'd accomplish on my own.
In any event, this is beyond awesome and I'm subscribing as soon as I get home.
Analytical solutions in circuit analysis are impossible for the vast majority of nontrivial circuit designs and few subfields of electrical engineering require computer simulations so you wont see much mathematical rigor in practice. Electrical engineering is all about rules of thumb, experience, and intuition unless you're designing something like a high efficiency power circuit, a complex high speed digital or mixed mode design, or an antenna. Most of the time, my circuit designs are based off of reference designs provided by the part manufacturer, who also provide routing and design guidelines. As long as I'm not pushing the limits with fabrication (bigger board, more layers to route, few overlapping power domains, large vias and no microvias, etc) the first prototype usually just works, with a few minor mistakes and oversights, without having to do any math or simulations.
By the time intuition and documentation fails an experienced electrical engineer, they're probably designing something that costs tens of thousands of dollars to prototype and hundreds of thousands worth of testing equipment. It'll be a long while before you get to that point so I wouldn't worry about the math, although I still recommend studying it because it might help develop that intuition.
I've heard good things about it. He tries to create a middle ground between the opposite ends of heavy theory with nothing to build and tinkering without conceptual understanding.
I recommend you get the Thomas C. Hayes "Learning the Art of electronics - a hands-on lab course" book and doing the work. Source components of ebay from China, stuff is dirt cheap. Get a $400 Rigdol scope and your set.
The only thing I worry about is a lack of mathematical rigor, but I suppose as long as I can get hands on experience that amounts to much more than I'd accomplish on my own.
In any event, this is beyond awesome and I'm subscribing as soon as I get home.