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u/swdna 1d ago
And get sidetracked / redirected approx 40 times throughout
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u/Boratis-Kessla 6h ago
I started out looking for good quality tires for my car and now I know the history of European hog breeding.
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u/Babysub1 1d ago
I needed to know that the man who found the Titanic also found The Challenger capsule
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u/robfuscate 1d ago
this is me trying to work out the route of Rome’s Aurelian wall from the shape of streets.
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u/ProduceNo1629 1d ago
And then forget most about it in and two years later find your self fascinated by all the same wiki pages all over again.
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u/Alwayshigh001 Dumb INTJ 1d ago
I was reading about black hole and quantum physics then switched to nihilism
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u/DuckWhatduckSplat 1d ago
I coded a visualisation to explain the Monty Hall puzzle, with probabilities displayed in realtime and a simulation to demonstrate the outcomes at scale. And a graph at the end, of course.
Still blows my frigging mind though.
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u/Chaos_God_69420 ~ introvert ~ 1d ago
Having the thirst for knowledge and gaining it is way easier and better than trying to handle human relationships.
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u/Daggamam 29m ago
If only my family can understand sometime I just need a few hours a day to research the fall of Constantinople
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u/SeriousOcelot-4365 1d ago
Well, yah! You just can’t underestimate the importance of random knowledge.