My personal hack is that before jumping into papers in unfamiliar areas like these, I go on YouTube and search for “<topic> explained”. The power of YouTube

My personal hack is that before jumping into papers in unfamiliar areas like these, I go on YouTube and search for “<topic> explained”. The power of YouTube is that for any hot area, there are a bunch of people incentivized to make a short video that maximally engages. The quality can be quite high even at higher levels of math abstractions. The visuals are really helpful to get a feel for the abstractions (3 blue 1 brown proved this years ago). There are some excellent videos of GNNS that in less than 10 mins gave me a launching point into the literature.