I am the kind of person who gets pulled into rabbit holes pretty easily. I like to call them side quests because they always start with one small curiosity and turn into a full deep dive.

For example, when I started baking, I was obsessed with understanding the "why" behind the science of it. That eventually turned into an app idea, which pulled me into learning product design and UI/UX. Digging into design helped me understand the "why" of how people interact with things, and that gave me a totally different perspective when it came coding it. I learned programming first, but now I understand the frustration of front end developers when designers have complex design and lots of animation lol. These rabbit holes have given me such a huge appreciation for anyone who builds things, whether they are perfecting a recipe or shipping a piece of software. To me, learning is just a way to see how the world fits together and a constant process of proving to myself that if I am curious enough, I can figure it out.