This is so true. It’s good to be reminded of it. Doing these kind of things is what keeps me interested in the field. These days I was interested in messing ar

This is so true. It’s good to be reminded of it. Doing these kind of things is what keeps me interested in the field. These days I was interested in messing around with something different and went through rabbit hole of running FreeBSD in a VM. In an objective sense, it never had any purpose, neither I have any specific goal with it. From an outsider perspective, it’s all just a waste of time. But it’s these little things — getting obsessed about making some random thing work (or trying until I’m convinced it won’t) — that makes me do things I normally wouldn’t, and I end up learning unexpected things on the way. I’m now trying to map the holes in my terminal and UNIX tools knowledge just because of that, and it led me to read more details about UNIX history, GNU history, watch videos on these things, look for blogs etc. You never know where something like this will lead you to.