[drBonkers]

These are great example exercises, thank you for sharing them.

I think they may get at the heart of what I was trying to say though: while these clearly would make one better at solving software engineering problems, I'm not certain they would improve one's raw, general problem solving ability in an orthogonal discipline.

Some (likely imperfect) examples are:

- solving salary negotiation of a job/contract offer

- solving socio-political organizational problems in a company