while True: learn() comes to mind. Solving puzzles that involve thinking in terms of flows, accidentally learning some machine learning, and things that would transfer to tasks like designing computer networks, or scaling apps where the challenge is some choke point.
Polytopia is chess-like to me, in that there are many scenarios where you need to move precisely in order to pull off an attack or defense. While chess would be considered to be heavily focused on military and territory, Polytopia requires you to balance military, territory, economy, and technology development. It generates a lot of questions for me, that I end up trying to answer with small coding projects, like what’s the optimal way to expand using this tribe on this map type, or whatever.
Polytopia is chess-like to me, in that there are many scenarios where you need to move precisely in order to pull off an attack or defense. While chess would be considered to be heavily focused on military and territory, Polytopia requires you to balance military, territory, economy, and technology development. It generates a lot of questions for me, that I end up trying to answer with small coding projects, like what’s the optimal way to expand using this tribe on this map type, or whatever.