> Without shooting yourself in the foot, learning lacks motivation. Complexity without reason is really confusing. Interestingly not my experience. I usually

> Without shooting yourself in the foot, learning lacks motivation. Complexity without reason is really confusing. Interestingly not my experience. I usually start something uselessly complex, with more passion than reason, to learn or brag, then halfway I indeed shoot shoot myself in the foot trying to be clever or lazy. I would not recommend to look for footguns, they are already looking at you :)