I would have thought this to be wholly generalizable. Experience makes me a better football player if I study and practice with an eye for improvement. Experi

I would have thought this to be wholly generalizable. Experience makes me a better football player if I study and practice with an eye for improvement. Experience makes me a better weightlifter if I study and practice, if I get the nutrition I need, and so on. Some of that improvement will come regardless. But most of it, even if not specifically deliberate, requires some element of direction. Would spending 10,000 hours writing out the Cyrillic alphabet repeatedly enable me to read Russian literature? So then, would spending 10,000 hours writing HTML enable me to write kernel code? In the end, what is experience but a training of my brain?