Depends on the docs but if they're written well you're best served by reading them in full. Rftm before looking at best practices and tips.
Problem is a lot of people don't understand how to read a doc. There's a terminology, phraseology, syntax. I have so many instances of people who say they didn't see the answer in the docs and then you look and it's right there. But the human mind tends to discard info it doesn't understand how to process.
If you think you know how the Internet works but haven't read the RFCs you might not know as much as you think you do. Read pretty much every one on ipv6 because the second hand resources are absolutely garbage.
Yep so you know it's bad because Royal blood is pretty thick.