maybe I missed your point, but imagine you were a person who could never go so much as a week without experimenting with something that is intellectually stimul

maybe I missed your point, but imagine you were a person who could never go so much as a week without experimenting with something that is intellectually stimulating then imagine you had spent decades working in programming shops, propping up one poorly conceived project after another, using so many languages and frameworks and operating systems that they blurred before your eyes. then it might not be hard to understand how tending oranges might be a lot more intellectually stimulating. its not some generalized 'burnout', its just mind numbing boredom