The material’s not the hard part. You can just study that. It’s the social environment and performance, often sustained for hours, that’s entirely unlike anyth

The material’s not the hard part. You can just study that. It’s the social environment and performance, often sustained for hours, that’s entirely unlike anything else I do. It’s not like emergencies (great at those), it’s not like being in a meeting with a hostile client (good at that), it’s not like any socially-difficult thing I do in work or life outside of it, and it’s certainly not like normal collaboration. Programming while being watched and judged is horrible and energy-sapping in its own special way.