A. Build general familiarity. Do a shallow pass, just to get familiar with the information mapping, general concepts, and their relationships. Don't worry about

A. Build general familiarity. Do a shallow pass, just to get familiar with the information mapping, general concepts, and their relationships. Don't worry about understanding everything. B. Create feedback loops: - Go someplace where I can talk to myself, and summarize as much of what I read as possible. Note anything I couldn't explain to someone else, and go back and fill in those gaps. - Write out my own summary of the material, as simple as possible (no fat), such that anyone could read the summary and learn the material. This is basically technical writing, and also creates an artifact for others who need to learn the same content. - Draw out the main components on a whiteboard. C. Start to apply the material. - Copy a "known good". Transcribe good production code to get a feel for the principles. Hunter S. Thompson used to spend hours copying Faulkner to develop a muscle memory for the rhythm of the language of good writing. - Choose a small goal and use the material to implement it.