New associate, what to do first month on the job?

Starting here in a few weeks as a new associate 1. Coming from a lev fin background to a sector focused fund. Any guidance on where to start to prep? Any recommendations to other best practices for when first hitting the buy-side desk is helpful as well. Fund is c. 4B latest raise.

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