Shallow breadth and focused moderate depth. T- or Π- or m-shaped. I try out lots of things and even if they don't become permanent hobbies, I'm glad to have a

Shallow breadth and focused moderate depth. T- or Π- or m-shaped. I try out lots of things and even if they don't become permanent hobbies, I'm glad to have a very basic introduction to them. Skydiving, kite surfing, marathoning, engine rebuilding, Alaskan mountain hiking are all things I've done on the order of 1-5 times. I may or may not do any of those again. I will never be good at any of them, but they are part of the human experience I have engaged in and I'm thankful for that. Other hobbies I'm good at but will never be anywhere near a pro. I enjoy linguistics but I haven't read an academic paper in over two years (the last time I did was actually for a footnote in a law review article going off on a tangent about Chief Justice Warren's express opinion that courts shouldn't "sit as a panel of grammarians" and that an appellate court did so anyway and got a fundamental part of linguistic analysis wrong). I enjoy programming but the only project I ever felt worthy of publishing on GitHub is an old static site generator I wrote in C before they were cool (~2002-2003). And I'm okay with that too. My skill level is enough to be useful in automating things about my legal practice or having a framework to make learning the basics of a new language easier. It doesn't need to be more than that.