Today, my first-ever stack overflow question about tracing ruby dependencies/requires was still stuck in my crawl, even though the actual problem was long since solved.
Because, the core of all learning starts with one of two things: either a question or the internal drive of there has to be a better way
And sometimes in the journey of finding a better way, you find there isn’t. But the journey is almost always interesting, and in my career, I’ve found that journey to be critical to continually learning new things.
Is it worthwhile? For the world? no, not really. But it was for me.
I think Joi Ito describes it best (and well enough it deserved a citation on the wikitionary page) — but I’ll summarize:
Some Yaks Must Be Shaved.