Its only an addiction when you connect your identity to the outcome. The problem is that when you are building something with just an expectation of contributi

Its only an addiction when you connect your identity to the outcome. The problem is that when you are building something with just an expectation of contributing to the world or intrinsically, it doesn't hurt when you don't get 1000 active users but you are still working on it because you "want to". I spend 80% of my free time on side things because I love learning and I am curious about the world and that makes me happy. Socialising and exercise is the rest 20%... Think balance is subjective for everyone but you can easily notice it when something just makes you miserable. For instance when I am learning to code, the bugs and things that I don't understand are so freaking frustrating... but I keep going anyways because its interesting. We are all writers of our own stories including balance I would say...