[pksebben]

I feel like my ADD makes the soul-crushing busywork thing way more of a motivator. Half of what I do at work is just an upgraded version of the things I do to go really far out of my way not to do a thing twice.

There's another benefit, too. By "living in the system" and treating every part of the computer as something to manipulate, automate, and control, you get a more organic sense of the shape of the thing. It's a fairly common occurrence that I'll have a feeling that something ought to be different without really knowing why, and then later that feeling is proven out (this typically has to do with stuff like the shape of dependencies or the usage of tools in contexts that are a misfit, which then turns into ever-expanding kluges that should have been better design from the outset).

That said, try explaining to someone else on the team that "I dunno, just doesn't feel, like, nice".