> This is a good question, but I’m not sure if there’s a good answer. I think you've actually given a great answer here. This is essentially what I did in grad

> This is a good question, but I’m not sure if there’s a good answer. I think you've actually given a great answer here. This is essentially what I did in grad school as well and found it really helpful. I never thought to continue doing this in fields that piqued my interest. Thanks for the suggestion! While we're on the topic, here's the advanced distributed systems reading list from UIUC: https://go.cs.illinois.edu/CS525SP21ReadingList https://go.cs.illinois.edu/CS525SP21ReadingList I took the class a number of years ago, but found it super interesting.