https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
There was at least one Googler at my last retreat.
My experience is that it was an awesome brain hack! Sit around do nothing and gain extraordinary clarity and
intense focus. My thoughts were "how did i get here? do they put something in the food?". Then i served 10 days(prep'd food) and witnessed others similarly affected.
Maybe if there was some angle on how this could make you a better developer, but no, I don't see that.