How many hours a week do you spend researching and reading about new technologies and best practices?

10-15 hour active learning/training/reading, but there is also uncalculated hours spend on reading forums, Twitter, blogs, LinkedIn etc.

I try to follow the rule by Bill Gates - 5 hours per week to read and learn new things.

I want to spend 3-4 but if drops to 1 some weeks.

Actively 15 hours, passively add another 20... Overall not enough to keep up with the pace of tech evolution. The tough part is staying abreast of what I call tech pebbles - small things that I need to go hunt down and which can potentially add up to huge benefits and savings in the operational world. The big rocks are great, they are thrust in your face by the media anyways, the pebbles are which matter and make the big rocks possible in the living run. Tiring 😂

6-10 hours a week reading  about emerging technologies and another 6-8  creating scenarios the guidelines of best practices.