Different people have different learning styles. The style that I find works well is to go through the material end-to-end in multiple iterations. The first pass usually as fast as I can for the high-level overview, then hone in on specific sections. Perhaps this is why learning SICP with David Beazley was pure joy.
I’m at functors in Haskell and I can’t pattern-match as easily.
Time to slow down. Time to reflect. Time to do the other things I mentioned I’ll do at RC: chat more, pair more, write more.