Dear Acdisagod,
I'm a certified, full-time chess coach, so I hope I can help you. 
Everybody is different, so that's why there isn't only one given way to learn and improve. I wouldn't say that strategy isn't so important for you. Of course, learning tactical motives is essential but if you learn the right strategic thinking method at a beginner level, it will be much easier for you to improve later. I can highly recommend Jeremy Silman's How To Reassess Your Chess 4th edition chess book. Most of the exercises are pretty useful and give you an extremely good basic knowledge. I've been teaching from this book for 3-4 years and my students really like it and improve well. You can see their feedback and progress here: https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-lessons/feedbacks-from-my-services
In my opinion, chess has 4 main territories (openings, strategies, tactics/combinations and endgames) and if you want to improve efficiently, you should improve all of these skills almost at the same time. That's what my training program is based on. Of course, there are always ups and downs but this is completely normal in everyone's career.
If you would like to learn more about chess, you can take private lessons from me (you find the details on my profile) or you can visit my Patreon channel (www.patreon.com/Bgabor91), where you can learn about every kind of topics (openings, strategies, tactics, endgames, game analysis). There are more than 19 hours of educational videos uploaded already and I'm planning to upload at least 4 new videos per week, so you can get 4-6 hours of educational contents every month. I also upload daily puzzles in 4 levels every day which are available with a FREE subscription.
I hope this is helpful for you. Good luck with your games!
I understand the basics and I’m looking for a book a bit more advanced than say “playing winning chess”. I’m getting to the mid game consistently with a lead in development, stock fish says I’m decently ahead, but then I don’t do enough to capitalize since I don’t know what I’m trying to accomplish. I review my games and too frequently I slowly bleed out my lead without blundering. I don’t really know enough right now to properly review my games and understand why stockfish does what it does and why my moves are inferior.
I’ve been playing for a month or so, and not counting timeouts I’m 16-0 in daily chess with a 1200 rating and 700 elo in rapid
I am currently training hard to improve in tactics as well. I’m going through Seriwan’s tactics book and doing puzzles. If you have any other advice on finding tactics I could use it though.
I know strategy isn’t as important at the level I’m at, but my goal is to hit the top 1% and I find it interesting so I might as well start now. I do have the book “simple chess” and I’m definitely getting stuff out of it.