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This may sound stupid or trite, but have you considered moving into a management position? Social media and Youtube may be stealing your attention because you

This may sound stupid or trite, but have you considered moving into a management position? Social media and Youtube may be stealing your attention because you simply enjoy them more. If coding was more enjoyable, you'd be doing more coding at the expense of those distractions. But maybe you just don't enjoy coding your current project. A lot of projects are not intellectually or morally stimulating, and it's hard to stay excited about them, particularly if your work culture is the least bit toxic. Being a manager means dealing with people, and a lot of experienced coders actually get more out of that than out of JIRA-code-Git-repeat.

groby_b 8y ago
It might be surprising, but dealing with people still requires focus :) Also, instead of code, you write docs - so many docs. Which, again, needs focus.
- giarc 8y ago
  I think the comment was more about the fact that social media is more enjoyable and therefore drawing OPs attention. If they moved into management, perhaps that would be more enjoyable and therefore remove the social media draw. They could have used any occupation not just management. Maybe OP just doesn't enjoy coding anymore.