[BaseballPhysics]

What?

The things I may want to learn or do in service of a hobby or personal interest are very different from those topics relevant to my professional life, and the motivations and the value I get from it are entirely different as well.

And this article is clearly written with a professional context in mind.

Unless you think that when he mentioned how his "software developer colleagues often ask me where I do get all the time for reading all the tech books or articles, watching conference talks and listening to podcasts," they were marveling at his woodworking hobby?

[ncruces]

So the things you may want to learn are not job related. But maybe the things he wants to learn are.

I've certainly gone through periods where that happened, and others where it didn't.

I don't think it's correct to judge anyone for not wanting to do job related stuff out of the job, but neither is it correct to judge someone who's so interested in their work area that they spend their spare time learning more about it.