Pretty much. Thinking from different planes of knowledge and connecting them, recognising, applying and folding over abstractions and patterns. Imagine if your

Pretty much. Thinking from different planes of knowledge and connecting them, recognising, applying and folding over abstractions and patterns. Imagine if your knowledge of software development was a tree, and imagine if your knowledge of design was another tree and you had one for hardware, biology, music, math, physics. And a lot of times contain the same patterns and abstractions, so you can recognise them and apply them where you see fit instead of just using them from one tree only, so that gives you a lot of mental models on how things work. That turns out well in abstract stuff and thinking in complex systems, especially when you need optimisation thinking like a CPU designer would need.