Finding your own 'triggers' is really important, I agree. For me it's when I can provide help to someone. I'll easily not get anything done for a week, hear so

Finding your own 'triggers' is really important, I agree. For me it's when I can provide help to someone. I'll easily not get anything done for a week, hear someone struggle with something that I could solve with a bit of code (often gluing various API's together), and I'll get right at it. I'm also triggered/motivated by 'optimizing' stuff in my life. If something in my life strikes me as suboptimal and some code might be able to fix it, I'll happily try to find the least effective but most educational or fun way to solve the problem (XKCD be damned[1]). My life is filled with the coding equivalent of rube goldberg devices, and it's almost a shame that nobody can actually see them. [1]: https://xkcd.com/1205/ https://xkcd.com/1205/