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These are fairly nice and straight-forward suggestions, but I'm always surprised that these articles (or conversations like it) never mention ideas not directly
by grownseed 13y ago
These are fairly nice and straight-forward suggestions, but I'm always surprised that these articles (or conversations like it) never mention ideas not directly related to programming. It might just be me, but in my opinion programming is a specific application of a given mindset, not the other way around. Anything that can improve this mindset can be beneficial, even if it's not always directly obvious. I've personally become a considerably better programmer by learning more about cooking, music, different languages, biology, physics, philosophy and many other things. I find it somewhat sad that so many people seem to consider programming an end rather than a means.
- a_olt 13y agoYes, and this can have very sad consequences – such as very capable people working unreasonably hard on projects which never pick up or don't have much relevance to the rest of the world. It's very important to stay as connected as possible to as many fields as possible; I suppose in the end this is how you become a creative person.