It's always felt to me like, "Oh you want to learn to cook? Great!" This is a pickaxe. I want you to mine some iron slag out of this vein. "What does this have

It's always felt to me like, "Oh you want to learn to cook? Great!" This is a pickaxe. I want you to mine some iron slag out of this vein. "What does this have to do with cooking?" "Well, you want to use a knife to cut your vegetables don't you? How on earth do you expect to get a knife to cut your vegetables if you don't mine for iron slag, refine it, build a forge, learn blacksmithing, make thousands of inferior and useless knives until by trial and error you finally have a knife you can cut vegetables with!" "Ok, so once that is done then I can be a cook, right?" "What? are you a fucking moron? Look at this asshole who thinks he can be a chef if he knows how to make a knife! What an idiot! You need a pot and a pan and a kitchen, but to get a kitchen you need a house and to get a house you have to buy the land and then to get the food you have to learn agriculture and animal husbandry, woodworking, stone-masonry, how to quarry, political intrigue, bartering, build a working economy you and 7 other people can all agree on using..." It isn't that difficult. All I really needed was a problem and a line on the tools I needed to solve them. All the other stuff may make me competent should I need to rebuild the world's technology stack from the ground up a.k.a Dr. Stone but it never earned me a dime of income of served the most basic of purposes in attempting to dissuade me from a computer career.