[papito]

For me, programming was like being a little god in my own little world. For an introvert especially, it was exhilarating. You write a command, and it obeys. When you see something on screen is even more satisfying.

In fact, the all-night coding binges happen because in an intense period of learning, you are producing a ton of adrenaline, and that annihilates sleep. (Sorry, working, don't care to look for the study right now). But it checks out.

[satisfice]

And when I was a kid, it was the only world that I COULD control.

But then I went professional and that felt a little like how the Old Testament God must have felt: overwhelmed and irritable.