My pet theory is that even relatively simple programming problems drain a very limited daily resource of programming time (something on the order of 2-4 hours o

My pet theory is that even relatively simple programming problems drain a very limited daily resource of programming time (something on the order of 2-4 hours of real work per day). Because a programmer can be drained of programming ability so quickly we just compensate by blogging, posting, talking about it incessantly as a backfill.