#programming #angst #motivation #legacycode
A few nights ago, in the wee hours of the morning, I came to be staring red-eyed at a list of programming languages. I'm a generally optimistic person, I enjoy learning these sorts of things, and I appreciate the things that the tools on this list had to offer. Despite all that, I couldn't contemplate investing in any of them with anything but dread.
I'm curious about some experiences I've had in the course of my work as a software developer. My curiosity comes from a place of profound ignorance, based on subjective observations of my own mental and emotional state.
This is not a well researched or thoroughly studied position, nor is it:
It's to do with a particular kind of anxiety. There are lots and lots of ways that work can make a person anxious, so I want to be clear: I'm asking about a particular, fairly narrow, set of circumstances.