Ultimately this is what ended the scheme for me. People started to tell me they'd had the same conversation with me multiple times in a day. That was a full 6 o

Ultimately this is what ended the scheme for me. People started to tell me they'd had the same conversation with me multiple times in a day. That was a full 6 or 7 years before I finally realized I had to stop. On the plus side I started writing things down a lot more, but that only scales so far. It's a dark period of my life I view as an unfortunate mistake that I wish I'd gotten help with earlier. On the other hand, I did write some remarkable code during that time, code that has lived on and been put into production systems and been relatively bug free and profitable. My method was to get everything I needed ready; source sync'd, computer running, editor open, then and only then dose. Removing all distractions at the start was key. I could not, however, imagine actually learning how to code, under those conditions.