> A sense of mastery and adventure permeated everything I did. My experience too. I did embedded systeems that I wrote the whole software stack for: OS, networ

> A sense of mastery and adventure permeated everything I did. My experience too. I did embedded systeems that I wrote the whole software stack for: OS, networking, device drivers, application software, etc. > Over the decades those feelings slowly faded, never to be recaptured. Now I understand nothing about anything. These days programming is more trying to understand the badly-written documentation of the libraries you're using.