It's clear, minimalist, insightful, and even has an in-page live code demo. Bonus points for including fixed-points as a key concept, and memoization as an extremely useful technique.
Don't know about bloat fixes, but what does your workflow look like that JVM starts are annoying? My Emacs CIDER REPL comes up in 4 seconds (MB Pro 16G) and it's often many hours (even days sometimes) between restarts.
But yes, slow starts are annoying if you're starting a JVM frequently. Can you change your workflow so that's not needed? Check out Component, Mount or Integrant.
It's clear, minimalist, insightful, and even has an in-page live code demo. Bonus points for including fixed-points as a key concept, and memoization as an extremely useful technique.