(not claiming to be smart but the appetite for complexity seemed familiar) I used to have an appetite for adding needless complexity, and what really helped me

(not claiming to be smart but the appetite for complexity seemed familiar) I used to have an appetite for adding needless complexity, and what really helped me was finding better work/life balance. For example, personal projects in the evenings/weekends are a much better output to make something super complicated and brittle and just see how it falls apart or becomes impossible to make directional changes in. Also exploring other hobbies helped satisfy curiosity in a way that I would try to in my work code. Photography is a good one with a good amount of book knowledge, ability to get deeper into the subject matter, explore historical approaches (film and antique bodies) and a lot of space for creativity. Adopting prettier really helped me with code consistency too. I used to spend time making code nest nicely or having a hard time reading others code when it didn't adhere to a familiar syntax. Prettier just undoes all my formatting on save/commit and unifies all our repos to a common syntax so in my head I just lost perfectionist impulses to put spaces or newlines in perfectly working code files.