I think there's a few things about the software industry that make it really easy to become depressed, cynical, and jaded. We spend quite a lot of time being pe

I think there's a few things about the software industry that make it really easy to become depressed, cynical, and jaded. We spend quite a lot of time being pedantic, fixating on all kinds of specific details, and especially, thinking about many different ways our applications can go wrong. In the context of writing robust software, that's a good thing, but it can also be really difficult to turn it off in the other parts of your life.