Burn out. Or maybe some kind of clinical depression. 1) covid's almost over, and that'll help 2) Burning Man? I'm semi-serious here. 3) After 10 years away f

Burn out. Or maybe some kind of clinical depression. 1) covid's almost over, and that'll help 2) Burning Man? I'm semi-serious here. 3) After 10 years away from writing code, I took a full stack contract to do something esoteric and difficult, without a tight deadline. It took me nearly three months to recover 100% of my coding capability, and after the contract ended, nearly three months to recover my social skills. It's a very very hard job. To be better than the technical problem is much, much harder than being better than (say) competing bankers or lawyers. The opponents are not human when you write code. They're harder to defeat.