Probably an important point is to keep notes, maybe just keep a notepad and pencil in your kitchen, so you can learn what works in your kitchen, with your equipment. For whatever reason, every time I've tried those steak cooking tricks comparing it to touching your hand, I still get it wrong. Way over-or under-cooked. So I memorized this rule of thumb, all around the number 3:
- Preheat the oven to 300 F, also preheat a cast iron pan on the stove.
- Throw your seasoned steak on the pan for 3 min.
- Flip it over, cook for 3 min.
- Put it in the oven for 3 min.
- Put on your plate and tent for about 3 min under foil.
- Optional but highly recommended: throw some butter in the pan, sautee some mushrooms/peppers/onions if you have them. Add a splash of Worcestershire sauce if you have it. You can skip this, but it makes it feel much fancier.

This is for cooking to medium-ish, for NICE steaks like striploin that are always cut the same way from my grocery store. Anything 'crappier' goes in the Instant Pot. Even easier! Throw in some liquid, pressure cook the heck out of it. You pretty much can't go wrong.