This is good advice in today's landscape (an alternative approach to my answer above). Tech matters to me, I wanted to understand many things deeply, I didn't w

This is good advice in today's landscape (an alternative approach to my answer above). Tech matters to me, I wanted to understand many things deeply, I didn't want my knowledge to exist entirely inside of someone else's genius work (such as Unreal Engine game development where you're scripting everything/wiring up game logic/etc.). However, doing the kind of thing I did a decade ago is almost impossible with the tech expectations of today, and also, simply not really necessary.