Your post matches what I meant - you don't do these mentioned things before doing "proper" work; your work is doing there things, so there's nothing to actually

Your post matches what I meant - you don't do these mentioned things before doing "proper" work; your work is doing there things, so there's nothing to actually learn from the article. The interruptions will be just as painful (or not) for you as they were before reading it. Sure, notes are useful, but your mental representation of the issue is your cache. With lots of cache misses, you are much slower ;)