What you look up at 2 a.m. when nobody’s assigning anything is a pretty honest read on what you’re curious about.

Curiosity with nobody assigning anything is the real version of it. What you look up when there is no grade attached, no one watching and no use for the answer describes your actual interests far better than a timetable does. Those searches get written off as a wasted night, when they are the one honest record you keep of what you want to know.

Look back through what you have been looking up lately and read it as a list of interests. Take whichever comes up most and feed it on purpose: a book, a course, somebody who does it for a living.