[KyleBerezin]

I write stories for fun. They are never read by others, and most of them end up lost forever to old hard drives. I also enjoy programing fun and useless things, even stuff like pathfinding algorithms. I'll never actually use them over a simple library, but I enjoy doing it. This person seems to be more focused on other people valuing their work, in which case the thesis is even more wrong.

If someone is paying you to make something, you are almost always creatively limited. You are not making what you want, you are making what you think they want. If you end up being wrong about what they want, it goes in the trash; Code or not.

If you want to code for fun, or code as a creative outlet, code for yourself. Make very small and achievable projects. If you are more of a C/embedded person, try demoscene.