> do the uncomfortable thing. I’ve done this ever since learning about “brain plasticity” as a child. My logic was/is simple: if I didn’t want something to fee

> do the uncomfortable thing. I’ve done this ever since learning about “brain plasticity” as a child. My logic was/is simple: if I didn’t want something to feel uncomfortable I had to do it regularly. To me, building physical strength/ability and mental strength/ability were the same. Sitting on a moving bike was uncomfortable and now isn’t, and architecting distributed systems, too. Perhaps simplistic, and not worth a long article, but pretty close to the truth it seems, as I look back.