This reminds me of a talk of Linus Torvalds. From this perspective, mastery can be seen as an acquired taste that came after doing a large volume of work.

Can you please link the talk?

It’s this one: https://www.ted.com/talks/linus_torvalds_the_mind_behind_lin.... The code he referred is here: https://github.com/mkirchner/linked-list-good-taste

Ah; i had seen the TED talk earlier though i had not looked at the code example in detail.

Thanks for the links.