[rslice]

I strongly recommend this presentation: "John Baez: "Symmetric Monoidal Categories A Rosetta Stone"[0]. It is easy to get lost in the ocean of theorems and definitions and overlook some powerful core concepts.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAGJw7YBy8E

[dboreham]

Even though I've done much reading on the subject, and watched many of his lectures, my brain still jumps to music and Joan Baez.

[wnoise]

They're cousins. Joan's father, his uncle, was also a physicist.