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My well-being, expectedly, increased when I stopped caring more about my projects than my clients did. What I was not expecting is that my quality of work remai

• matwood 5y ago
  I was going to say something similar. I like working, probably work too much, and I care about my work. But, my natural disposition is not to stress too much over things that don't matter. There are obviously times and certain items that do matter and require some stress to handle at that time, but day in and day out those should be rare events. I see people go on long arguments over the color of a button, or (as we see on HN a lot) argue over the minutia of a particular programming language. For the most part those things don't matter. Does the button have enough contrast to its accessible? Cool, let's move on. Go, Java, <insert pl here> - I can sing the praises or yell the problems of many languages, but I've solved problems and delivered great value in everything from VB5 to php to c++. Does the language fit the problem space? Cool, let's move on. This is a long way of saying that people blame hours working instead of how they approach work. Someone might work 4 hours/day, but if those 4 hours are super stressful every single day, that can't be a good thing.
• JohnBooty 5y ago
  Thank you for saying this. I've often suspected that my work would improve if I cared less. Caring too much leads to overwork (sapping your ability to do good work in the long term) and/or analysis paralysis.