I'll contribute one takeaway. When you read information and in the moment understand what its saying, you feel like you've learned it, but you really haven't.

To learn it you have to try writing it yourself, then checking it against the source to make sure you didn't miss anything or make errors. Once you can discuss an idea fully and correctly, then you've learned it.

I forget who the author is but these notes were posted on HN a couple months ago:

https://workflowy.com/s/E9HW.jGUYboLrGj

I wrote a blog post for the final assignment (years ago, so I don't remember what the exact assignment criteria was). http://jpeeler.github.io/memory/