I have this sort of "mesh" of knowledge now. Stuff from 30 years ago is still valuable now. Moving from bare metal to chroots to zones to VMs to cloud just expa

I have this sort of "mesh" of knowledge now. Stuff from 30 years ago is still valuable now. Moving from bare metal to chroots to zones to VMs to cloud just expands that mesh. What was once physical is now virtual. Being virtual, it has plasticity. But the underlying evolution is still there, so there is sort of a distilled fundamental nature to compute, network, storage. Hard to explain, but the mesh is also sedimentary. Nodes in the mesh have these layers of history now that provides more axiomatic understanding. If you know zones, you grok VMs, you understand EC2, then pods then containers. Different names for very related concepts of "compute". All a long way of saying that when I learn now, it's more about adding to that mesh than expanding separated islands.