alt Hacker NewsWell, I envy you, I guess.
I don't believe you learnt anything to any appreciable depth in 1.5 hours. I guess you learnt what's possible, but not much more. I get it, learning is learning and you got 1.5 hours' worth. Fair enough.
The bit I struggle with, though, is celebrating things being easy. I'm not excited by easy things. I like hard things. It's a bit like reading an account of how easy it was doing the Alpe d'Huez in a car. I'm more excited by people cycling up it because I know how difficult that is, or building the car. But driving it? Meh.
I do wonder if I'm descended from the people who built Stonehenge. I get restless if things are too easy. I need something hard, like erecting huge stones. But damn it's been nice being able to get that kind of satisfaction just sitting at a desk.
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Yup, this is the same "learning" as passively watching a 3blue1brown video and thinking you've mastered Fourier transforms or something.
Surely it matters that you can choose the things you want to be hard. Practicing guitar is hard, but I choose to do it, because I want to be better at that specific thing and the journey is the point. But not everything we do is like that. I don't want paying my bills to be hard.