Code. Then close the laptop and bake bread. Read a scientific paper. Then read a fantasy novel. Then a graphic novel. Then a children's book, out loud, with voices.
Write. Write a terrible poem. Write a journal entry. Write a short story that goes nowhere. Write a letter to someone you'll never send it to. Play with words for the pure joy of watching them land differently than you expected.
Learn advanced maths just for fun. Not for your career. Not for a side project. For the pure satisfaction of your brain wrestling with something beautiful and useless.
Go to a museum. Stand in front of the classics until you feel something. Walk in the forest until you stop thinking about your inbox. Swim in a lake until your body reminds you it exists.
Cook a dinner from a cuisine you've never tried. Mess it up. Eat it anyway.
Dive deep into a tech field you know nothing about. Not to pivot. Not to 'stay competitive.' Because curiosity without a business case is the most underrated skill in tech.
Make cookies. Read the Stoics. Code some more.
The most fun to be around people in any room aren't the specialists. They're the ones who can hold a conversation about Marcus Aurelius AND distributed systems AND why sourdough needs a longer proof in cold weather.
Range isn't inefficiency. It's how you build pattern recognition that no single discipline can give you.
Be a whole human. The world gets better when you are.
