[tmsh]

Learn to find joy in the little, bottom-up things. Curiosity and humility are relevant. If you don’t, you fail in an evolutionary sense compared to those who learn to do this (it’s why commencement speakers touch on finding your passion — your situation is one on which they’re talking about).

Humility: look in the under-looked places for finding joy. And realize there’s always more to learn and to teach. Curiosity: try new things.

[grugagag]

What do you mean by bottom up things? Something similar to building software bottom up vs top down? Simple tinkering?

[tmsh]

Yes, exactly right re: tinkering I think. Exploring adjacent areas to work or entirely new areas slowly with a beginner’s mind aimed at carefully understanding and appreciating building blocks.

[grugagag]

I like that aproach as well, especially when exploring new spaces or building proof of concepts