One nugget of wisdom is that if you are decently intelligent, most of your failure to understand “complex” topics is really due to poor quality explanations fro

One nugget of wisdom is that if you are decently intelligent, most of your failure to understand “complex” topics is really due to poor quality explanations from other people. Few engineers are clear writers. Buy books, sort though university course syllabi, watch lectures. That is, consume materials meant for teaching beginners. For consuming non-beginner material, it’s okay to read a blog post and not fully understand everything. Things will click together over time.