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There was an HN poster a few months ago who claimed that memorizing the Python standard library made him much more productive.

There is a certain subset of programmers who get away with this at work. But if you're posting this, it sounds like you're torn between the comfortable quality of life you're living now, and the boredom and knowing you could be doing more.

Some ideas:

* Can you do a rotation on a different team? (For example, if you're devops, you might learn a lot on SRE/ops.)

* Can you start side projects at work, for work?

I run an email newsletter[1] that aims to highlight the interesting content found on personal blogs. It's a single link every other day to something interesting, the kind of blog posts that you come across every once in a while that really make you think. The overwhelming feedback is that being able to read the kind of non-viscerally-targeted news and analyses that aren't easily found online is incredibly valuable.

I've been asked multiple times about starting a community with discussion, but don't currently have the bandwidth. If someone else would like to create one I will happily support it.

[1] www.thinking-about-things.com

Some example articles are at www.twitter.com/thinkingaboutt6.

I run an email newsletter[1] that aims to highlight the interesting content found on personal blogs. It's a single link every other day to something interesting, the kind of blog posts that you come across every once in a while that really make you think. The overwhelming feedback is that being able to read the kind of non-viscerally-targeted news and analyses that aren't easily found online is incredibly valuable.

[1] www.thinking-about-things.com, www.twitter.com/thinkingaboutt6

Thank you for letting me know. Fixed.

This looks intriguing. Welcome to the newsletter space! I run Thinking About Things [0], a newsletter with a similar premise - that of critical thinking and seeing things in a new light.

The demand for content about critical thinking is rising exponentially. I'm happy to collaborate and show you the ropes - you can find our contact info on the site.

[0] thinking-about-things.com

It's impossible to underestimate the degree to which curation is becoming the differentiator in the digital economy. Those who can be trusted to provide valuable content from the fire hose of all that's available on the internet will become the new information brokers.