[feraldidactic]

for me the journey is the things i can do through creating various things in various contexts and authoring the code itself is a small step in the journey.

if it the puzzle solving metaphor, i'm taking solved puzzles as pieces to solve a more meta puzzle ... and i enjoying the journey at that level.

i try to practice tracing all the way down the stack and learning about new things added to the stack, but i'm not in it for the sake of the stack or its vagaries and difficulties.