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But feeling productive and being productive are not necessarily the same thing. Sometimes I feel really productive at a task (e.g. writing a nested data arser in Bash) with a lot of unnecessary drudge work because I can comfortably plug away at it for a long period of time. But with the drudge work mitigated (e.g. using a real language with a parser framework) I'm left focusing on the hard problems, which causes me to become mentally drained more quickly, procrastinate more, and feel less productive overall.