[dandelany]

This oversimplifies but there is some truth to it too.

I am mentoring two junior devs at the moment, one at work and one friend. In some ways I really miss & envy the happiness they feel when we get something to work. One of them finally got a D3 chart to render correctly and got up from his chair and started whooping and throwing his fists in the air - I was grinning from ear to ear.

But then I realized the flip side of this - every time we run new code and it produces an error, I hear “AUGh what the FUCK?!! D:”

I have been at this for ~15 years. I see a new error, I feel nothing. Better that way. But I still take a minute to crack a smile when I get something working for the first time :)

[throwaway98797]

when you banish the negative emotions the positive disappear as well.

the oppressive tranquility is nice…but we long for the joy of success we no longer can feel just know