I started teaching myself to code about a year ago and in my last job before I "retired" to travel I managed a team that was woefully inefficient and stuck in t

I started teaching myself to code about a year ago and in my last job before I "retired" to travel I managed a team that was woefully inefficient and stuck in their ways. I was constantly telling them "there's always a better way!" When I had learned enough about programming to strike out on my own a bit I realized I need to practice building stuff that was a bit more complex/interesting than yet another To Do App. So I started to keep a little list of all the things I encountered that were frustratingly inefficient or annoying so I could try to "build a better way" as a way to practice coding. I try to work on building something from my list every weekend. I'll be the first to admit that (so far at least) most of the things I've built have not, in fact, been better than the status quo. But it lets me flex my problem-solving muscles a bit and I definitely learn better by coding something from scratch than I do from any code-along course/project.