For all the uninitiated, Jacob also runs Findka Essays [0] which is fantastic. My daily reading is Findka Essays and Thinking About Things [1], which is more than enough interesting reading material that I can get through.
There is a certain subset of programmers who get away with this at work. But if you're posting this, it sounds like you're torn between the comfortable quality of life you're living now, and the boredom and knowing you could be doing more.
Some ideas:
* Can you do a rotation on a different team? (For example, if you're devops, you might learn a lot on SRE/ops.)