I was thinking "building software is more like writing a book" and a few paragraphs later they slide into the publishing analogy. I spent an entire year, 16 ho

I was thinking "building software is more like writing a book" and a few paragraphs later they slide into the publishing analogy. I spent an entire year, 16 hours a day, grinding on a software project all by myself...and I shipped at the end. Having completed it, or shipped rather, I realized/felt that I now knew what it was like to be an author...working alone building something through discovery and pure creativity. I have been chasing that feeling again, for years. It doesn't come from building someone else's desired solution as a team member on a project. That is a totally different experience for the developer than building from the heart. At work, building software is sort of like building a house. In my home office it's like writing a book.