This could’ve been written by me, it so closely matches my own experience. I know too well the “hit with a bag of bricks” realization that much of your professional life has been more or less you winging it. Math has that tendency of shining a bright ugly light on your real capability. It’s deeply humbling.

I’ve been using MathAcademy, trying to do at least one lesson each night after the kid is asleep. But instead of rote memorization, I sit with each problem until I truly and deeply understand it.

It’s going to be a long time before I’m mathematically competent, but there’s nowhere to go but up.

Yeah, that’s my thinking now as well. It’s going to take an incredibly long time but truly understanding each problem is probably the only way to go.

Which is where this beats self study using books, I think. With a book, I can sort of wing it and think I understand something when I only do so very superficially whereas when you do the problems you truly learn what you understand and what you do not. And MathAcademy is only problems, so …