[julianh65]

I wonder how one would apply this to programming, I'd like to continuously improve my programming but not sure how to apply the ideas from this to it. I could see it being a thing for something very measurable like competitive programming, yet if I wanted to deliberately practice different aspects of software engineering is there anything specific to do besides building larger and more ambitious projects?

Perhaps purposefully creating small toy projects with "harder" aspects like concurrency, graphics, compilers etc... would help?