I guess it's been said before, but: sometimes, writing code is the only way to find calm in the universe. It doesn't happen all that often, because generally writing code requires one to know what to work on, and that feels like a hard problem. But when it's obvious what to work on, and the work is to just figure out how to do it and express it in code, then the world recedes and the code flows.
That's why I like having personal projects to stuff around on, where I can just forget everything else and not worry about other people's opinions of my code and thinking, and settle to work on a thing that I have total understanding of and control over. It's a great relief. It's not realistic, it's not efficient, it's not community-minded, but without it I don't think I'd bother carrying on with programming as a job.
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