You've made some really good points about reading code in both of your posts. I'm fairly new to it, but I've started a daily habit of reading code everyday and I've realized this is an important skill I've omitted in the past.

Since most of the code I read (C# code) can be ran on my platform, I'll sometimes run into that rare piece of code that I can't believe it does what it says it does, in those cases I'll download the repo and debug it and many times be surprised to find there was a gap in my understanding. Reading code helps me find knowledge gaps I didn't even know were there.