What motives me is what Dan Pink calls "purpose" or wanting to make a difference in the world. I spent 9 years building software to make the lives of telephone

What motives me is what Dan Pink calls "purpose" or wanting to make a difference in the world. I spent 9 years building software to make the lives of telephone support workers better (by helping them create and re-use solutions to common problems). I've spent the last 8 years building software to make the lives of network engineers better (by helping them automate repetitive tasks on thousands of network devices). Thinking about making a difference for the user of the software I'm writing keeps me going.