Try learning foreign languages. To understand a language, one must possess a level of understanding of the underlying culture and history. Then one discovers t

Try learning foreign languages. To understand a language, one must possess a level of understanding of the underlying culture and history. Then one discovers that dialects arise from a common language with differences in geographic or societal culture and history. Linguistics and etymology are fascinating topics, _almost_ as much fun as building (and test breaking) fault tolerant distributed systems.