Core decks vs extensive reading

(2016-06-08, 4:40 pm)CureDolly Wrote: Essentially each of us finds our own balance over time. Obviously is always a trade-off. At one extreme are the people who do core decks and RTK for many, many months before even touching any real Japanese. At the other extreme are those who never touch Anki at all and learn purely by immersion and massive input.

It seems kind of hard to find a balance for now. Not sure if I will anytime soon either...

I've read some of the posts on your website since I bumped this thread and thought that maybe I should focus on frequent words that I don't know for the most part. But now that I've decided to give Shirokuma Cafe a try, it seems the vast majority of the words I don't know are actually very uncommon if not rare according to Rikaisama. Oddly enough, some of them are still considered common by jisho.org, despite the fact that Rikaisama says otherwise. Is there any rule of thumb you'd recommend that I follow?

With very little work today by my standards (halfway through the second episode), I've added almost 50 words so far. Am I being to greedy? I can easily see this holding me back if I do this daily, which is why I was a little worried about srsing stuff while trying to get a lot of input in the first place.