- Learning about those things. This is often in the form of reading, whether articles or books. This is hard and where there seems to be a bottleneck. I’m trying to convert this step into more of a “sifting” step, where I go through readings and try to highlight the interesting parts to be reviewed later. This may work ok, but it does seem like the best learning happens when I am able to do really focused reading and note taking all in one, which is quite rare.