I think something I would have included that I thought about later is being curiosity driven. It's more personal, but I've found a lot of what I've really enjoyed (and where I've learned the most) has been from allowing myself to go down random rabbit holes to play with different things.
There's some risk to this if you never go deep enough, but I think the benefits are worth it.
I think there's also something to PG's essay about liking debugging specifically too.
I think something I would have included that I thought about later is being curiosity driven. It's more personal, but I've found a lot of what I've really enjoyed (and where I've learned the most) has been from allowing myself to go down random rabbit holes to play with different things.
There's some risk to this if you never go deep enough, but I think the benefits are worth it.
I think there's also something to PG's essay about liking debugging specifically too.