It’s been like that for me for a long time now. But I’ve got to put this big brain of mine to use somehow!
So I have to read other kinds of intellectual noise, non-technological ones. Ideally, of course, I should stop reading trivial stuff on the internet altogether. On the other hand, there are often amusing little things there that lift my mood. Try figuring out how to strike a balance.
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I'm arecovering programmerwho has been designing video games since the 1980s, doing things that seem baroquely hardcore in retrospect, like writing Super Nintendo games entirely in assembly language. These days I use whatever tools are the most fun and give me the biggest advantage.