I've since lost interest in learning technical minutia for the sake of learning minutia. Instead, everything I learn is in service to reaching an end goal that

I've since lost interest in learning technical minutia for the sake of learning minutia. Instead, everything I learn is in service to reaching an end goal that is important and meaningful to me. Thus, motivation comes down to find something meaningful/purposeful to work on, and then wanting to do the best implementation possible for that thing, whatever it happens to be.