For example, a powerful technique is to take notes on everything you read--by hand, on paper. The motor-visual-processing loop is extremely powerful for learning.
Another: teach someone what you think you learned. If you can do that without your notes, you really understand it.
Check all available learning research and try to incorporate the most powerful techniques into your MVP solution--and then do community sampling again.
Keep going...
Also please share the word! Thank you!