Personally, I find this aspect of the work somewhat profound. My graveyard of projects and dreams stretches out behind me and I feel saddened to know that thes

Personally, I find this aspect of the work somewhat profound. My graveyard of projects and dreams stretches out behind me and I feel saddened to know that these articles representing portions of my life never achieved what I had hoped for them. However, I've come to view my work like a mandala or some representation of our mortality itself; our works and our lives are temporary. We can make the most of the brief moment that we have – whether that be through work or through parenting or through base jumping – whatever that may be for each of us, or we can choose to do nothing with that moment, knowing that it's ephemeral and will be gone soon anyway. I choose to try making each day's the best code I have ever written; I want it to be "beautiful" and maintainable in spite of knowing that it will be refactored, deleted or decommissioned at some point.