It's my particular curse to be interested in just about everything I run across. And I can never seem to just stop at a superficial level of knowledge - no, I've got to go whole hog.
My library reflects this. In it are books on programming, woodworking, auto mechanics, art and drawing, aircraft design, electronics, and a few others that escape memory right now. Any one of those subjects can devour an entire lifetime. Not to mention the various subsets of each that become a kingdom of their own. You can spend your whole life on just one programming language, for instance.
It keeps life interesting, but it also makes it hard to make any real progress. Which is why I sit at Square One with so much of this stuff. Because to really excel at anything, you've got to commit. And that means leaving other stuff behind.
There's the rub. So much cool stuff, so little time.
