Nice seeing you here. You are one of the names I remember from Twitter whose posts I always found valuable

Some relatable feelings there. While I have been able to do derivations and "math" as needed, although with various levels of struggle, visual understanding is what moves the needle for me too. Unless my visual understanding and intuition is sharp enough, I feel like I haven't understood it well.

Create an agentic system to support my literature search

Write an article about it on my newsletter

Anytime a paper seems really relevant, to the point it will meaningfully improve your understanding or results, summarize the article and write how you might use lessons from the paper. Engaging with AI such as Claude to improve your understanding is very helpful.

LinkedIn is a great source of finding papers from people (connections) doing research close to your area of interest. Utilize opportunities for meaningful connections through comments, DM or sharing your own posts. No AI slop.