Easy to digest to me is a matter of process plus order. Just because you can boof wine/ai and feel a greater high than if you just took a sip doesn't mean you should. I'd start by setting the table and throwing out your last meal. start over in the 60s and work forward.

stafford beer on cybernetics (also worth mention, norbert weiner): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ6orMfmorg

Lots of other people start w/ other things but i'm a mgmt minded person so a social engineering + psychology + anthropology oriented lens has always been my anchor.

My first real intro to math where everything clicked was w/ primitive graph theory as it were 2000+ years ago. From there, algebra, geometry, trig, calc, etc# started clicking.