I'm also working on nothing for the past two years. After about 10 years into software development and side projects, keeping up to date with new tools and fra

I'm also working on nothing for the past two years. After about 10 years into software development and side projects, keeping up to date with new tools and frameworks, and so on, I'm now feeling both overwhelmed and bored at the current incremental upgrades tech is having. Similar to smartphones, they're getting boring. I feel that my level of knowledge allows me to easily grasp new concepts, and that exciment fades when I realize that the most juicy part will be implementing it in a big project, and not another CRUD SPA. This pause/gap I consciously took made me realize I wanted to make my knowledge broader, and go all the way down to learning what makes software and tech exist: fundamental concepts like math, physics, calculus, probability, yada yada. I'm also using this time to learn about cultural aspects of software, it's history amd methodologies. Without being overwhelmed by tech, I took the decision of starting an engineering degree. And with that, I think I'm keeping the tech grinding on pause, until I learn how systems work, how tech is able to exist, with the hopes that after having a structural foundational base, I can go back to tech and move aside from CRUD SPAs, solving exciting and hard problems. I'm really glad I found this post, this is something that keeps resonating in my mind. This is a really overwhelming industry. And as a closing note (maybe I'm talking to myself here), never ever feel bad about doing what feels good doing.