get lonely and need more interaction: join a sports team (the fun leagues, eg indoor soccer or intramural ice hockey), join a pickup game, go to weekly yoga or

get lonely and need more interaction: join a sports team (the fun leagues, eg indoor soccer or intramural ice hockey), join a pickup game, go to weekly yoga or art classes, form a trivia group, hang out with friends, live in a coop. there are many hobbies i wouldn't necessarily roll into a career. friendship and human contact is one of them. work for me is about loading my weekly design ideas and code changes into the "RAM" of my brain and getting into the flow. there is plenty of time around that to schedule meaningful human interaction, which is usually meaningful precisely because it isn't professional work interactions. i never try to code while interacting with others, though i do like to work in RAM while doing solitary things like swimming or falling asleep.