Isn’t washing dishes one of the few instantly rewarding actions available in todays’ workspace? The feeling of warm water running over your hands, the immediat

Isn’t washing dishes one of the few instantly rewarding actions available in todays’ workspace? The feeling of warm water running over your hands, the immediate change, the purity that you create, the complex pattern of light reflecting in the water drops, the sound of it… To me, this is an immensely pleasant activity. Sure, if I’m in a rush, I just load the dishwasher and jump to other things, but otherwise this is a great time to relax and meditate. Compare that to waiting while the CI pipeline is chugging through over and over, only to end up with frustrating disappointment that another test started to fail, or that something has stuck in the cloud house-of-cards again