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I have a similar feeling, sometimes. It crops up whenever I stop coding on the side, for fun, for more than a month. The playfulness just gets lost over time.
by manmal 7y ago
I have a similar feeling, sometimes. It crops up whenever I stop coding on the side, for fun, for more than a month. The playfulness just gets lost over time.
Last week my motivation went to almost 0, and it took me a while until I discovered the why: I had been stunned by the SwiftUI demos, and wanted to get my hands dirty. But I hadn't had ANY time to dabble around because I had overburdened myself with promises to various customers. What I did felt very far away from what I actually wanted to do, and it got worse every day.
When I finally understood what the problem was, motivation started to come back. I played around with SwiftUI for only 5 minutes yesterday, and feel so much better already.
Do you have a side project that you would love to spend all your time on? (doesn't have to be coding)
- tayo42 7y agoThis kind of stuff just makes me feel worse in the end. I try out all this cool stuff in my free time then I'm stuck doing monotonous work with same tools at work. Or I learn something cool and just never get a chance to apply it. I feel like what's the point beyond satisfying some curiosity.
- Bootwizard 7y agoI think the key is to learn or create something far removed from what you work with every day. If you try to learn something you can apply to work, you associate learning this new tool with how you can apply it to work and it drains it of the fun and novelty it's supposed to provide.
- naasking 7y ago> I feel like what's the point beyond satisfying some curiosity. That can be enough. What's the point of reading an informative book beyond satisfying your curiosity?