If you’re willing to lose, it’s good to try it blind and just try to intuit your way as far as you can get. The ingame chat/comment stuff helps too, most of the tips people leave there are good. The only bad advice I’ve seen there are slight inaccuracies.

Once you feel like you got stuck (probably around first golden core, about 3 hours of playtime unless you pause a lot) just start another game and follow the foundation guide. I can’t link it directly because it’s in google docs, but it’s the first link here.