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Basically, it says these hobbies are similar to programming. You know what? If I'm picking up a hobby. I want it to be as dissimilar from programming as poss

Basically, it says these hobbies are similar to programming. You know what? If I'm picking up a hobby. I want it to be as dissimilar from programming as possible.

nextlevelwizard 9y ago
So what are your hobbies? Or what would they be if you don't have one? My take on the topic is that people who thrive as programmers have specific kind of mind. In a sense that they approach problems in certain way. Which also makes certain hobbies more appealing. Like here we have orienteering instead of hiking. With orienteering you get to acquire and use a new set of skills to solve new problem(s) (i.e. where am I and how do I get to X?) where as hiking is pretty much just following a trail. I'm not saying that hiking every now and then can't be just relaxing and stuff, what I'm saying that orienteering has same benefits as hiking, but you get to also "do something".
geebee 9y ago
I like to be mentally engaged, but in something that is not the same sort of mental engagement as programming. Tennis is great. I don't do much ballroom dancing, but what I've done I really enjoy. I also play a lot of music. These have a physical component in addition to a mental one. Surfing, I also like, but it's more solitary, and coding tends to be a somewhat solitary activity (not nearly as solitary as people often think, though). But the cold ocean and the mental process of reading and catching waves is a kind of relief or therapy for a brain exhausted after a day of unweaving and re-knitting code. I have trouble understanding why people love playing go or chess or other highly analytical or memory based games. Casual card games, that are heavily random but involve just enough strategy to require a bit of mental engagement, those seem for some reason to ease social interaction, so those "strategy" games, I like. But hey, some people can't wait to get to chess or go club at the end of a day of coding, and that's pretty excellent, go for it of course.

Basically, it says these hobbies are similar to programming. You know what? If I'm picking up a hobby. I want it to be as dissimilar from programming as possible.

nextlevelwizard 9y ago

So what are your hobbies? Or what would they be if you don't have one? My take on the topic is that people who thrive as programmers have specific kind of mind. In a sense that they approach problems in certain way. Which also makes certain hobbies more appealing. Like here we have orienteering instead of hiking. With orienteering you get to acquire and use a new set of skills to solve new problem(s) (i.e. where am I and how do I get to X?) where as hiking is pretty much just following a trail. I'm not saying that hiking every now and then can't be just relaxing and stuff, what I'm saying that orienteering has same benefits as hiking, but you get to also "do something".

geebee 9y ago

I like to be mentally engaged, but in something that is not the same sort of mental engagement as programming. Tennis is great. I don't do much ballroom dancing, but what I've done I really enjoy. I also play a lot of music. These have a physical component in addition to a mental one. Surfing, I also like, but it's more solitary, and coding tends to be a somewhat solitary activity (not nearly as solitary as people often think, though). But the cold ocean and the mental process of reading and catching waves is a kind of relief or therapy for a brain exhausted after a day of unweaving and re-knitting code. I have trouble understanding why people love playing go or chess or other highly analytical or memory based games. Casual card games, that are heavily random but involve just enough strategy to require a bit of mental engagement, those seem for some reason to ease social interaction, so those "strategy" games, I like. But hey, some people can't wait to get to chess or go club at the end of a day of coding, and that's pretty excellent, go for it of course.