META I really like this guy's articles. If you look in the archives [1], he's been writing prolifically for at least 15 years. Let's zoom on 2018: [2] * 3 sum

META I really like this guy's articles. If you look in the archives [1], he's been writing prolifically for at least 15 years. Let's zoom on 2018: [2] * 3 summaries of reading for at least 40 books read in a number of miscellaneous subjects (some of them re-reads) * Articles on type theory * Some articles centered around specific programming languages like python, Haskell, and Go * Articles on concurrency * And much more! :-) I think he has "seasons" of learning particular languages. I think I've read some of his articles on Clojure, but he stopped writing about it eventually. According to StackOverflow [3], he appears to be an expert in Python. In his Github account [4], I see a bunch of repos including one for code on his blog, but I don't think there's any particular repo he focuses on (maybe pycparser?). Apart from making me feel inadequate about my own year accomplishments (how many books have I read this year?), I'm curious what one would do after such sizable knowledge ingestion. I'm surprised this guy doesn't attempt to come up with his own programming language. Maybe he knows is not worth it? Maybe he knows that is better to know the nooks and crannies of existing languages than trying to come up with a new one? Maybe he just reads books instead of going dancing, watching a movie, socializing in a bar, listening music, browsing the web, playing the piano, or what not. Maybe he does all this things and still has time for reading and learning and writing his blog. Sometimes I wish/hope/expect that everything I've learnt will sometime in the future allow me to create something, anything, where I can mix and match pieces of everything I've taken in. For sure this guy already benefits from all his knowledge on his day job, his side projects and maybe on his everyday life and interactions. I don't know, but I'm curious. I mostly punish myself, all the time, for not being more productive, all the time. 1: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/archives/all https://eli.thegreenplace.net/archives/all 2: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/archives/2018 https://eli.thegreenplace.net/archives/2018 3: https://stackoverflow.com/users/8206/eli-bendersky?tab=profile https://stackoverflow.com/users/8206/eli-bendersky?tab=profi... 4: https://github.com/eliben?utf8=%E2%9C%93&tab=repositories&q=&type=source&language= https://github.com/eliben?utf8=%E2%9C%93&tab=repositories&q=...