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by inkubus 719 days ago
I myself found a kind of zen in doing repetitive, monotonous tasks: doing dishes, laying bricks, updating 50 YAML files with the same changes...
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There is something satisfying to my mild adhd brain about doing monotonous tasks. I used to work in a candle factory, and one of my tasks was cutting birthday candles to size and packaging them. In on 8 hour period i would package ~8000 candles into ~70 shipping boxes. Start the day with a pile of empty boxes and end the day with a pile of full boxes.

There is something very zen about the point at which you don’t even have to use your eyes anymore because the motions were so second-nature. Other people found it eye-wateringly boring but I thought it was peaceful.