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[marginalia_nu]

I don't think I've learned anything my entire life with a goal in mind.

[titanomachy]

Surely building your search engine required you to acquire new skills? Presumably your motivation to build a good search engine drove you to learn things you otherwise wouldn’t have.

[shapefrog]

Since formal education - I don't think I've learned anything without a goal in mind.