one of my favorite things I've learned from @ejames_c is his Land and Expand Strategy for Reading: studying narrative accounts first, and then getting into more nitty-gritty analyses. https://commoncog.com/blog/the-land-and-expand-strategy-for-reading/

Here are a few recommended Land/Expand strategies from Ced:

Here's another way to look at it, with a 2x2: Land / Expand x Easy / Hard.

For example, here's a possible L/E Strategy for Boyd/Maneuver Warfare:

That would shake out to a reading path like this:

When I mentioned this to Ced, he agreed wholeheartedly and added some helpful advice:

P.S. It's wild to me how under-followed @ejames_c is - as of this writing he has < 2k followers - let's fix that, his writing is