All good points. I'm not a NIH person so that has never been a problem. But I can be distracted by personal projects and work projects that are optional. I hav

All good points. I'm not a NIH person so that has never been a problem. But I can be distracted by personal projects and work projects that are optional. I have been focusing my learn at work activity on: - learning the languages I use better - learn the tools better (IDE, etc.) - and improving our software development processes We have a long way to go on software development processes (best practices) because we are 100% self taught team that covers a diverse but not uncommon set of technologies (linux, apache httpd, javascript, jquery, angular, sass, java, bash, php, etc.) and we are always slammed with priorities for senior management of the university. I do love filling in the gaps with learning. Sometimes I find something I learned a long time ago causes something else to fall in place and I think to myself "that is why I needed to learn that". Maybe a bit of serendipity.