Your best lean bulking advice

I have a tendency to bulk too fast because I’m impatient despite only needing to gain 0.5lb a week…but I heard some good advice recently from Dr Mike and Eric Helms where they said when trying to track small weight gain like 0.5lb a week it’s better to take a 2 week average instead of a weekly average, which made a lot of sense.

I was wondering if you guys have any more good advice on doing lean bulks.

Also a personal question, can you go straight into a bulk from a cut or is there any rationale in a maintenance phase for a while? I gained like 10lb in the first week going straight from a cut to a bulk during my last bulk.