I spent roughly 25 years writing code for a living while also writing code for fun. I think this was pretty normal when I got started; coding was neither cool n

I spent roughly 25 years writing code for a living while also writing code for fun. I think this was pretty normal when I got started; coding was neither cool nor especially lucrative back then, so the people who were into it were into it, for its own sake. I didn't stop coding in my free time because I stopped enjoying it, either, but because I could no longer sustain the fantasy that anyone was going to use any of the stuff I wanted to build. The level of motivation I feel for a project which is not going anywhere is not high enough to sustain me for more than a week or two.