ADD: what finally worked for me was to not read the book [linearly], but instead jumping between tons of sources, lots of exercises, and generally not stressing

ADD: what finally worked for me was to not read the book [linearly], but instead jumping between tons of sources, lots of exercises, and generally not stressing about getting everything in all the [ample] detail. And of course doing it and doing it every day. I definitely still have lots of holes (hello async) and I'm not shy about Cloning/Copying liberally unless it really matters for performance.