I feel the highest good I get out of playing with alternatives is that I hit a higher rate of "hits" on picking up on things previously invisible to me. Playin

I feel the highest good I get out of playing with alternatives is that I hit a higher rate of "hits" on picking up on things previously invisible to me. Playing with a different editor gives me ideas for different workflows and shortcuts which my main editor already supports. Playing with a different programming language shows me how powerful X is which I never touched in my main programming language. The focus on learning and exploring an alternative is more powerful for me than mastering that alternative. I get the greatest benefit with a relatively smaller investment that way. Maybe instead of learning more programming languages, just pick small bits of something to explore. This might make for an interesting app (which won't make money.) Create a sort of "useless but interesting facts" type of app for programmers. Allow people to submit "cards" with something on it and then up/down vote on the card. The snippet could be a term, clever code, or anything bite size. The programming equivalent of "how to say ck in Klingon."